Protect yourself from the effects of fat gain….Today's post:  Thursday, 1-18-2018

Some eating styles support fatloss best and a custom version of them that works for you is best of all.

Tuesday last week, 1-9-2018, I posted on how to slash your risk of a heart attack in just two to four weeks.

The same eating styles work for that also!

Last Friday, 1-12-2018, I posted on the several somewhat similar eating styles that support fatloss & keeping off excess fat or fat you lost.  You can use that information to adapt recipes or choose foods to make an initial custom version for yourself and then upgrade it.

You can gradually make it work better for fatloss.  You can gradually make it faster and easier and more routine to fix many parts of it. You can gradually find foods you can include that you enjoy eating.

And, you can start immediately to make it protect your health better and give you fatloss faster by simply no longer eating or drinking heart attack starters or fatteners.

There are now two major sources for how harmful it is for your health to eat in ways that add pounds of fat to you.

1.  Super Size Me was a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker.

He successfully got considerably fatter.  His heart risk indicators got a lot worse.  He lost much if not most of his energy and feeling of taking new initiatives. 

And, his bedroom activities got way less and not anywhere near as enjoyable which was an effect he had not expected.

2.  Now Stanford University has released a study that caused people to gain about 6 pounds of fat by simply feeding them an extra 1,000 calories a day.

They used multiple kinds of measurements including genetic effects and changes in gut bacteria.

They….”found that the entire body undergoes microbial, molecular and genetic changes for the worse when people pack on the pounds. When weight is lost, the systems return largely to their original state.

Even just a modest weight gain of about six pounds, researchers found, alters the body’s basic biology -- potentially boosting the risk of heart disease and diabetes. Bacterial populations morph. Inflammation patterns shift. The cardiac system undergoes genetic changes.

“Your body is responding to a very stressful event,” said lead researcher Michael Snyder, a professor of genetics at Stanford. The study was published in Wednesday’s issue of the journal Cell Systems.”  [Apparently the publication date was yesterday, Weds, 1-17-2018.]

These two sources show that if you gain fat weight by eating and drinking too much and of the wrong things, you put your health at risk in many ways similar to those of smoking.

To protect yourself, do the things that reduce heart health risk.  Do the things that slash the risk of type 2 diabetes.  Do the things that reverse high chronic and excessive inflammation.

There are two kinds of good news here:

1.  The foods such as those we covered last Friday that support fat loss and those to stop eating or drinking to cause fat loss and keeping it off ALSO provide these protections. 

2.  And, the food changes to reduce heart risk and that of type 2 diabetes and high chronic inflammation also are those that help you lose fat without excess hunger and help you keep it off because they are sustainable and effective.

Adding effective and progressive strength training at least once or twice a week and adding short sessions of vigorous cardio 3 or more days a week including some short, brisk walks can add to your protection and also make it easier to lose fat and keep it off.

Knowing to NOT take statin drugs or beta blockers which harm your ability to use exercise to do this and increase diabetes and make it more deadly, is also important.  The good news is that these actions are far more protective than even the unearned reputation of these drugs.

And, the protections these targeted health upgrades provide can be very fast as we posted on last week.

And, for each of these kinds of protections, there are several supplements that can add a good deal to your protection.

In our post last Tuesday, 1-9, on fast reductions of heart attack risk and in the comment we added we list several of these effective supplements.

In our post “How to eat a low inflammation diet” on Tuesday, 12-19-2017, we also list several spices & supplements that are proven to help lower inflammation.