| by Lorna R. Vanderhaeghe Deadly Weight
North Americans are obsessed with their weight. According to the U.S.
Federal Trade Commission more than U.S. $36 billion annually is spent on
weight-loss products. Despite this enormous outlay of money, we are more
overweight than ever. Every day a new miracle diet product promises to
help us lose weight in record time. Advertising headlines scream, “Increase
fat loss by 500 percent and lose 10 pounds in one week.” While poor nutrition,
specifically in the form of high-fat diets, bears most of the blame for
the surge in overweight individuals, our expanding girth is associated with
many factors. Manufacturers of weight-loss products capitalize on the latest
and greatest diet craze, promoting high-protein, low-carbohydrate,
herbal miracles, or liquid diets. The fact is that fad products and diets
don’t work. They lead to binge eating and repeated cycles of weight gain
and loss, and are emotionally and physically destructive due to their
restrictive nature. In short, they are harmful to your health.
The Body Sense Natural Diet is like no other diet book. We now have
the evidence that being overweight has to do with the dozens of hormones
our body produces and how the foods we eat, the lifestyle we live, and the
types of exercise we perform affect those hormones. Certain hormones tell
us we are hungry, let us know when we are full, cause our fat cells to store
fat, while other hormones increase our metabolic rate, soothe our emotional
needs, and help us lose weight. The Body Sense Natural Diet provides
the solutions to normalize our disrupted hormones and burn fat faster
using food, exercise, and nutritional supplements. You will be shocked to
learn that some of the foods you thought were “diet” foods cause hormones
in the body to slow your metabolism and cause your fat cells to
become resistant to fat loss.
Scientists have recently learned that fat cells act like hormone factories;
the more fat cells you have the more hormones are spewed out, furthering
weight gain. Hormones in your digestive tract also contribute to your weight
problems, especially when they become disrupted due to food choices, bacterial,
viral, or parasitic infections, and bowel habits. Certain foods, like
refined carbohydrates and sugar, can trigger the secretion of dozens of hormones
that tell your brain you are in need of more food, cause cravings for
the wrong foods, and promote severe crashes in the hormones controlling
your moods, thus creating a vicious cycle of binge eating and weight gain.
Toxic hormones created by man are found in common household cleaning
agents, cosmetics, foods, and plastics, and more are being stored in your fat
cells. These environmental hormones disrupt the way your body’s hormones
function, create disease, and cause abdominal weight gain. For decades
women have been saying their hormones have been the cause of their
weight gain; now we know this to be true. If you have tried dozens of diets
with limited success it is because those diets did not address the key component
to weight management—your hormones.
Long-term studies show that one-third to two-thirds of the weight lost
through dieting is regained within one year, and almost all weight is regained
within five years. Faced with this fact, are you wondering why you should
even bother trying? Fat loss is not about dieting; it is about eating for a long,
healthy life. Diets are considered a success only if weight loss is permanent
and you have gained energy and vitality in the process. Diets should satisfy
all nutritional needs, be delicious, meet individual tastes and habits, minimize
hunger, and boost energy. The cornerstone to successful weight loss is
enjoying a moderate lifestyle consisting of healthy foods and lots of love,
laughter, friends, and family. But with most of us working what feels like
twenty-four hours, seven days a week, raising our families and trying to keep
our bills paid, eating for optimal health and weight control is the last thing
on our priority list. This is where The Body Sense Natural Diet shines. The
goal of this diet is to help you adopt healthy eating habits forever. By the time
you finish the 42-day program, you will have learned which foods cause hormone
imbalances and weight gain, deprive you of energy, and increase your
susceptibility to disease. And you will discover all the healthy foods that you
should be eating, not just to maintain a healthy weight but also to extend
your lifespan and increase your vitality. Not just you but your family, too. You
know you can’t stay on a diet where you are cooking one thing for yourself
and something else for your family. The Body Sense Natural Diet is so simple,
delicious, and healthy that your entire family will enjoy eating it. This is
especially important when you look at the fact that your children are suffering
the effects of weight gain, too. Obesity and being overweight constitute
the second leading cause of preventable death (after smoking), resulting in
an estimated 300,000 deaths annually in the U.S., according to the U.S.
Surgeon-General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and
Obesity report published in 2001. Obesity is the most common nutritional disorder
in the industrialized world today. Data from the United States between
1990 and 2000 show a 65 percent increase in obesity and a 25 percent
increase in overweight individuals, resulting in 34 percent of the population
being overweight and another 27 percent being obese. This means that more
than 60 percent of the U.S. population has a weight problem. The picture is
much the same in Canada. The Canadian Community Health Survey reported
that 48 percent of the Canadian population is overweight and 15 percent
is classified as obese. That is one in seven Canadians.
For more information on The BodySense Natural Diet go to:
bodysensediet.com
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