Michelle LeSueur, DBe, CNC, CNS

What you don’t know about your food could be making you fat!

Many people are not aware that 80% of weight loss is what you are putting in your mouth.  The advertisement industry has done a great job on marketing.  It makes me crazy when they will say a particular product has an ingredient in it, talks about the benefits like it is a primary ingredient, and then if you take a minute and research the ingredient, you realize there isn’t enough of it in there to get the results they are claiming.

Another thing that people don’t realize is if an ingredient is below a certain limit, it is not required to be placed on the label.  Many times, you truly don’t know what you are eating. In Paul Zane Pilzer book “The Wellness Revolution”, he talks about the reason why people sit down to a whole bag of chips or a whole box of cookies.  When you look at the ingredients on most packaged foods, it is hard to pronounce most of the ingredients.  The average person consumes 10 pounds of food additives every year.  Those of you who are looking to be ten pounds lighter might think about not eating things in a box or package.  Many of these food additives actually make you crave more food.  For example, MSG is under many different names and is an excitotoxin.  It literally excites your cells to death.  A great book is Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills by Blaylock.  This will really enlighten you on food additives.  It can make cardboard taste good. That is how scary food additives are.

When you eat a banana, you might have just one more, but rarely will you eat 5 or more.  That is because your body got the nutrients it was looking for so now you might reach for an apple.  When you eat processed or packaged foods they contain little to no nutrients.  You continue to eat, and in some cases you may even be full, but still do not feel satisfied because your body is still looking for nutrients.  I also see this in people that do not eat balanced through the day.  They eat very little for breakfast or even lunch and so when night comes, their body did not get the nutrients it was looking for so people will find that they have the munchies.  When you are a night eater you can guarantee gaining weight.

Almost everything that comes in a box or package contains corn or soy.  In the testing that I do, 60-70% of people have problems with both and the end result is weight gain.  When people eliminate this from their diet it is amazing how much weight they lose.  My rule is; if you can’t pronounce it you don’t want to eat it.  These chemicals increase your toxic load and cause your body to hang on to unwanted weight.  The more you can reduce your toxic load, the easier it is to reduce your weight.  Learn to read labels and avoid things that contain high fructose corn syrup and any corn ingredients and soy.  Both are genetically modified and create imbalances in the body.  New research shows it is causing sterility among many other problems. Jeffrey Smith, author of the bestseller “Seeds of Deception,” explains how genetically modified foods cause health problems, and their potential for creating a vast array of unforeseen and surprising illnesses.  I plan on writing later on why you need to say NO to GMO.

The more you can eat foods that are in their natural state, not only will you feel better but you will definitely notice a difference when you look in the mirror.

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