How to Lose Weight Safely and Effectively
November 21st, 2009The key to a safe and effective weight loss diet starts with an understanding of why and how we gain weight. In most cases, weight gain results from some combination of a lack of exercise and eating too many wrong foods. The shift in our diet over the last fifty years has been dramatic and really quite shocking. What passes for food these days is, chemically speaking, not food at all and certainly not healthy. Processed foods are packed with non-nutritive flavourings and additives that put a heavy stress on the body and often will render the food undigestible. Undigested, un-utilized food is stored in our body as fat. The food additives that don’t pass through our body are distributed to our fat cells, thus making them bigger.
If we were to do only one thing to improve the quality of our health and the weight of our body, it is simply this: eat more foods in their natural state. More organic fruits and vegetables (steamed or raw), brown rice and other whole grains, breads baked with non-refined flours, nuts, seeds, beans, and lean meats that are not fried. Less packaged foods, fast foods, deli meats, fried foods, and foods with artificial ingredients.
Researchers now tell us that the high fructose corn syrup found in our sodas and many other prepacked foods is a non-natural sweetener. The saccharides in high fructose corn syrup break down very quickly in the body, signaling intense rises in insulin, which in turn tells the body to store fat. High fructose corn syrup is one of the single greatest contributors to obesity in the world today.
A diet of wholesome, nourishing foods can taste good and be very filling and nourishing. A healthy diet does not require you to give up sweets. There are quite a few excellent healthy alternatives to sugar. The quantity of your food consumption does not have to change as much as the quality and nutrition of the food you eat.
A seasonal body detox will help clean up your body, increase your energy and promote a healthy immune system. Be sure to detox your body in a safe and gentle way.
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