Some chemicals can help make you fat….

Today's Post, Monday, 5-18-2009

The most important things to do and to know to do to avoid getting fat, lose excess fat, or stay trim are to:

1. NOT eat things that tend to make you fat such as regular soft drinks that add calories while Not making you less hungry or sugary foods or foods made of refined grains that produce fast blood sugar spikes that trigger insulin release and fat storage and then make you hungrier as soon as the insulin kicks in.

2. Do eat health OK protein foods both vegetarian such as beans and lentils or nuts AND animal proteins from naturally raised or wild caught animals only – OR using the leanest possible versions. Protein helps maintain muscle mass that burns calories and eating it turns down your hunger unusually well.

3. Do eat abundantly from organic and nonstarchy vegetables. They are extremely high in nutrients your body needs and fiber that helps keep you from being hungry AND they have virtually ZERO effective calories. Low glycemic fruit such as whole apples have a similar effect.

4. Do get regular exercise, particularly walking and varied and high intensity exercises such as interval cardio, jumping rope, working out on a mini-trampoline and progressive strength training each week. You burn more calories so you can eat more without being fat; your health improves dramatically; & research shows this means that any pounds you lose tend to be only fat. As a result, research shows that any fat you lose will stay off if you exercise and keep doing it.

5. DO eat some health OK fats and oils such as wild caught salmon, omega 3 supplements, and extra virgin olive oil. Go very easy on dairy fat. Eat nuts and avocados occasionally. Except for possibly coconut or nut oils, avoid virtually all other vegetable oils both in their natural form or worse if they are hydrogenated.

Eating some health OK fats and oils improves your health and makes it MORE likely you will continue to keep fat off than if you don’t. And, NOT eating the other oils helps keep you trim and avoids many health problems.

6. Practice some kind of restraint on your total calories whether from simply eating less on some days regularly or drinking less wine or eating a lot more vegetables and continue to do so. But do NOT overdo it. People who overdo cutting back virtually all give up the effort and stop doing most of the above steps. But cutting back just a little and putting most of your effort on the first 5 steps not only works, it keeps on working.

That produces 95 to 99 % of the effect needed to avoid being fat and to stay healthy.

But there are some supplements that can help.

The rest of today’s post though, are some chemicals to avoid as they tend to make you fat or keep you fat.

That’s important too. If you need to lose 40 pounds and only lose 30 pounds when you could have lost all 40, why not avoid those kinds of chemicals and lose all 40?

Here’s the ETR article from last Friday with some of that information.:

(I’ll add some comments after the article.)

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"Are Obesogens Making You Fat?

By Kelley Herring

It's estimated that 300 million people in the world are obese.

While we know that eating too much food (and the wrong kind, at that) and not getting enough exercise are the primary causes of the obesity epidemic, researchers have discovered another factor: obesogens.

Obesogens are endocrine disruptors that affect the way the body uses fat. They also affect the distribution of fat and the development of sexual characteristics.

Here are the top three obesogens:

Bisphenol-a (BPA) - found in plastics with recycling codes 3 and 7 and in liners of cans
Organotins - biocides found in conventionally grown produce
Phthalates - found in personal care products like nail polish, shampoo, lotions, perfumes, etc., as well as plastics.

You may get only a small amount of these obesogens, but their effects are cumulative. To protect yourself, follow these rules:

1. Eat only organic foods that are not treated with pesticides.

2. Buy canned foods in BPA-free cans. Vital Choice and Eden Foods are two companies that certify their can liners are safe.

3. Drink spring water in safe BPA-free bottles or filter your water using reverse osmosis and store it in glass containers.

4. Read the labels on personal care products carefully, and choose organics. Better yet, put on your skin only products made with ingredients that you would put in your mouth.

5. Avoid plastics. The "new car smell" is a telltale sign that phthalates are present.

[Ed. Note: Kelley Herring - founder of Healing Gourmet - has created a revolutionary health transformation program called Your Plate, Your Fate. In this 7-part program you'll learn how to protect your health and optimize your weight by maximizing the nutrients in your food. Plus, you'll get 3 bonus books to help clear your kitchen of harmful ingredients, spot the nutritional deficiencies that could be setting you up for disease, and the 20 tests your doctor should perform (but probably hasn't) to guard your health. See http://www.yourplateyourfate.com/Index.htm .]"

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Organic fruits and vegetables not only have less of these chemicals, we now know they are also surprisingly higher in the nutrients your body needs than those grown with artificial chemicals, particularly pesticides and herbicides.

Second, eating health OK protein foods both vegetarian such as beans and lentils or nuts AND animal proteins from naturally raised or wild caught animals only – OR using the leanest possible versions – is also very important to avoid ingesting these chemicals because grain fed animals eating grain that has been treated with these chemicals bioconcentrate the chemicals in their fat to such an extent, such animal protein fat is a far larger source than the produce you buy.

Lastly, vegetarian protein is less expensive than animal protein and comes with added fiber that helps turn down your hunger well. And even though the animal proteins from naturally raised or wild caught animals costs a good deal more than the animal protein from grain fed animals by eating less animal protein due to buying it less from the higher price helps to keep your calorie intake a bit lower.

The other chemical I’ve read to avoid is MSG. It’s used as a spice in many prepared foods. It may have some negative health effects in some people, particularly if it used heavily in a given dish. But I’ve read that in addition, it tends to increase hunger and calorie intake enough people who use it or eat it without knowing eat more and are fatter than people who do not.