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An overweight and obese future for America: how to avoid it?!The consequence of being overweight on your health.The epidemic of overweight and obesity which is ravaging the US is very worrying, not only because it touches adults, but also more and more kids and teenagers. Fifty-nine million Americans are considered obese, and 300,000 die each year from related causes, making this disorder the second-leading cause of death after smoking. So many things have been said and written on this problem, and yet no one seems to be able to pin down what is causing this disaster. Or maybe scientists and doctors have been looking at the wrong place? You will learn in this article about a very important factor which makes Americans more and more overweight and obese and how to remedy this problem simply and easily.We all know too well that both overweight and obesity increase the risk of many diseases and health conditions like:
The National Health Institute (NIH) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are sponsoring many studies to try to understand what is causing such an alarming outburst of overweight and obesity in the US. The CDC indicated 3 years ago that 65% of American adults aged over 20 were either overweight or obese, with 30% being clinically obese. Overweight and obesity increase the risk of poor health. We hope these results will serve as a wake-up call to Americans of all ages .. said an expert. Three years down the road, things are looking even worse. Watch your waistline!Have you checked your BMI (Body Mass Index) lately? Want to try? you can do it here or hereHave you always been in the normal range, do you eat healthy and do you exercise regularly? Even if you do, it does not necessarily mean you are safe! Here is bad news: it looks like you are still at risk for overweight and obesity in the future - this is horrendous conclusion of the latest scientific study of the Framingham Heart project which surveyed 4000 patients over 30 years. Does it mean we are all doomed to dress in size XXL at some point? Read on and you'll see there are simple and easy ways to avoid such a nightmare. But first, you need to know what are the real causes of obesity. What makes Americans overweight and obese?Sadly, pointing fingers at overeating, bad diet and lack of exercises
won't help to solve this massive problem, simply because they aren't
the only culprits for this disastrous epidemics! Medical studies
1 show that the exponential exposure to toxic chemicals
plays a major role in overweight and obesity. Experts are starting to
understand that in utero or neonatal exposure to environmental
chemicals, notably hormone-disruptors (like bisphenol A, read
further!), plays a role in the rise of obesity. Why? - It's simple! A
lot of these chemicals are fat-soluble and your body uses fat to store
them because it cannot get rid of them. This is because most of your
everyday chemicals didn't exist 50 years ago ... so your body may not
be equipped to eliminate all of them properly. More importantly, some
of these chemicals (hormone-disrupting pesticides or phthalates
that you can find in some personal care products and perfumes) are
well-known to sabotage the natural weight-control mechanisms of the
body and to promote weight-gain. Dr. Baillie-Hamilton MD 1
says: Once organophosphates get into your body, chances are they
will proceed to damage your weight control systems, making it just
that little bit harder to lose weight in the future...
Dr Jerrold J. Heindel from the prestigious US National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences wrote in one of his articles: "(Science)
provides fascinating examples of chemicals that have been tested for
toxicity by standard tests that resulted in weight gain in animals at
lower doses than those that caused any obvious toxicity. These
chemicals included heavy metals, solvents, polychlorinated bisphenols,
organo-phosphates, phthalates and bisphenol A"2. Don't let
these chemical names mislead you: these chemicals aren't limited to
closed bottles in regulated laboratories, they're everywhere... Just
as an example, Bisphenol A (BPA) is a potent hormone-disruptor and is
found in plastic bottles and metal cans, in plastic coating of
children's teeth to prevent cavities, in some pesticides, fungicides,
antioxidant, flame retardant, rubber chemical and many other
places... Detoxify regularly to ban extra fat from your body.Here comes the good news: we are not all doomed to be obese or even fat! The study above is just a statistical projection and luckily not everything that is projected has to happen. But you have to be proactive to prevent this statistic to apply to you.
If your body is loaded with these weight toxic chemicals, spending
hundreds or thousands of $ on pills, weight loss clinics and special
diets won't give you much results because your weight metabolism is
thrown off balance. So whatever you lose will come back once you stop
your strict diet… If chemicals in your body are causing you to gain
weight, you need to get them out of there.
Clay is a very potent and safe detoxifier. It has been used for
millennia all over the planet to heal and cleanse people and
animals. Taken internally (yes, it's safe and beneficial to drink it)
or used externally, it acts as a sponge and a sticky paper for toxins
and chemicals (as well as for some bacteria, viruses and parasites).
When you start a detox cure, take clay at least for 3 weeks daily and
drink a lot of water. There are only a few instances where Clay intake
isn't appropriate: if you are pregnant, or if you have high blood
pressure or chronic constipation. Outside these 3 restrictions, clay
will help you tremendously by deeply cleansing your body of toxins,
chemicals and pollutants. Resource About Clay | clay for internal use | clay for external use1 Dr Baillie-Hamilton works at the Occupational and Environmental Health Research Group at Sterling University, Scotland, UK 2 Heindel, J.J. "Endocrine disruptors and the obesity epidemic" Toxicol. Sci. (2003) 76, 247-249; Stokstad, E. "News focus: pollution gets personal" (2004) Science 304, 1892-1894; Baillie-Hamilton "Chemical toxins: a hypothesis to explain the global obesity epidemic" (2002) J. Alt. Compl. Med. 8-2, 185-192; http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/ 4 Engel, C. "Wild Health: Lessons in natural wellness from the animal kingdom" 2002 Houghton-Mifflin Co. p62-70 For more information visit www.ewg.org and www.greenpease.org |
