Fat
– Why We Have It and What To Do About It
by
Margaret Durst
The Green House
Previously
by Margaret Durst: Enzymes
– Take These To Recover From Thanksgiving
Fat A great after Thanksgiving topic. Fat is that horrible
stuff that hangs in all the wrong places on your body. Im
not even sure that there is a right place for the stuff.
Americans in general have been getting fat for some time and it
seems to have gotten worse lately. Why?
The function
of fat on the body is to protect us. We need it for padding, but
it also functions like a pocket or purse. Our bodies get overloaded
with the wrong kinds of food, with toxins from the chemicals that
are used to process our food and from environmental toxins such
as cleaning products, pesticides and synthetic fragrances.
When our body
is overloaded with stuff it cant handle, it must
put it somewhere so it stores it as fat. The body means to
come back and deal with the stuff later, but we feed
it more bad food and chemicals and so it never catches up, but continues
to stash the stuff.
Most people
with excess body fat are very toxic and tend to have congested or
sluggish livers. The liver is one of our major organs of detoxification.
When it gets overwhelmed, our metabolism gets slow, we gain more
weight and we have difficulty losing weight.
The good news
is that there are a couple of diets that deal with detoxifying the
body while stopping the onslaught of new stuff. These
can really melt that toxic fat right off your body.
The easy one
is called The Fast Track One-Day Detox Diet. Now before you get
too excited, this is really not a one day program. It
is an eleven day program that involves one day of fasting. This
is a great diet. It involves mostly food changes that are simple
and available almost everywhere. I tried it and lost about 10 pounds
by doing it two times and the weight has stayed off. The
fast track program is a really good way to kick off
a longer term weight loss program because it detoxifies the body
and revs up metabolism.
The most effective
diet I have ever used is called The Fat Flush Plan. This is one
of the hardest plans I have ever followed, but it really works.
It was designed as a womans diet to help balance hormones
and it really does. It works for men too. The Fat Flush Plan
is a true regimen. It is a scheduled plan of eating and taking specific
supplements. It works by detoxifying the liver and boosting metabolism.
It also restricts intake of the wrong kinds of foods that slow down
metabolism. I lost 15 pounds in three weeks by following this plan.
The Fat Flush Plan is the diet to try when nothing else has worked.
It also tends to help with some of the uncurable issues
such as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.
Both The
Fat Flush Plan and The
Fast Track One-Day Detox Diet are books. They are both by
Ann Louise Gittleman who was the chief nutritionist at the Pritikin
Institute for several years. You may remember Pritikin as the pioneer
of low fat diets. Ms. Gittleman developed her programs after seeing
the failure of the low fat programs.
If you are
having trouble with weight loss, look into these programs. They
might just work for you and help teach you how to be healthier at
the same time.
November 30, 2011
Margaret
Durst owns The
Green House, a vitamin, herb and health food store in Mason,
Texas.
Copyright
© 2011 Margaret
Durst
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