[JetePlentuara]

Very good advice gullyformyle.

[AmericaAirline 111]

thanks that should scare anyone into losing

[HBPujWBe]

What does it mean to be over-weight?

If you are like most people, you think of being over your ideal weight as just an excess of body fat that is unsightly and inconvenient. That is only partly true. Just like your own name, the term over-weight should mean much more to you than unwanted pounds of flab.

Your personal name – given and sur-names say a lot about you – together they’re the key to your financial, career, medical and physical histories thus far. You are your name and your name is you. There’s a lot wrapped up in your name.

The term “over-weight” when applied to you personally should be thought of in a similar fashion. It means that your body and every cell it’s composed of, is degenerating at a premature, accelerated but still reversible pace unless you have advanced to the stage where you are terminally ill. The extra weight you see in the mirror is essentially the tip of a physiological iceberg that is desperately trying to tell you something about yourself that you need to know – starting with the obvious – your eating and drinking habits are self destructive and can lead to your premature demise. This after the medical profession uses you as an income generating lab rat for as long as they can keep you going without actually helping you heal yourself.

There is no money in actually helping an over-weight person beat their affliction. That's why doctors never discuss fasting with you - fasting helps you heal but there is no way to charge for the information and if you heal, you are lost to the medical and pharmaceutical profession as an income stream.

If you are a nutritionist and fitness instructor rolled into one, the message your mirror is relaying to your brain is probably enough to put you back on track to optimal health. If you aren’t a nutritionist/fitness instructor, chances are the extra weight is nearly meaningless until it starts interfering with your quality of life.

Lots of diet professionals realize this and a huge industry has grown based on the general public’s lack of understanding and training about how to maintain good health, fitness and weight. As you might expect, they're all in business to take our money as quickly as possible. There are lots of ways to strip weight off a person and money out of a bank account using dietary techniques that range from the Marshmellow Diet to Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig without using a weapon. For the vast majority of participants in weight loss programs, the weight loss is temporary and the damage done to your body at the cellular level is very nearly permanent.

Diets focus on what you consume, when you consume and how much you consume while ignoring the fundamental differences between mucus forming and mucus free foods. Some programs include exercise as well. But none of them deal properly with the process of elimination – bowel movements - in combination with all of the other factors.

That’s why going on a diet to lose weight doesn’t work for most people. Diets by themselves can’t help your body repair the damage you’ve done and the dependencies you’ve created by consuming what we call the “Western Diet”.

All foods and beverages including water carry a degree of risk if ingested in excessive amounts. Our bodies require variety in balance, proper quantities and good timing. When we indulge to excess, we take risks that impose health penalties or injuries that, over time, become a community of interrelated injuries. We call these injuries “diseases” as a way of avoiding accountability for poor nutritional choices. Some of these “diseases” have so afflicted past generations that within families, genetic predispositions have developed that make those people more susceptible to having their ancestral dietary injuries re-emerge in the present.

Although we tend to think of ourselves as separate and autonomous individuals; genetically, we are recombinant forms of a constantly evolving genetic code that repeats with variations over and over again. On a genetic level, we really are immortal for as long as the planet can sustain life. But so are those dietary injuries our ancestors imposed (generally unwillingly) on themselves and therefore on many of their descendants. We drag our genetic baggage forward as dormant hitchhiking assailants.

[HBPujWBe]

When you don't eat properly there are consequences each and every time.

Just because we may not feel it when we eat junk food, we pay with lost health for each and every single bite and swallow. The effects are known as "cumulative". Just like when you fill a huge aquarium, each and every drop in it contributes to how much water is present. Every drop over full contributes to a spill that can have nasty consequences. Same thing in our bodies. We can only absorb so much nutritional damage. One drop beyond that spells trouble. Unlike an aquarium, we can't see where the fill level is. Think of your excess flab as your having passed your personal fill level or the point beyond which your body has been exposed to unnecessary danger.

Below are listed a few of the conditions we normally call diseases but that are really self inflicted injuries that we impose on ourselves when we make poor food choices with respect to type, amount and time of day it’s consumed:

1. Most forms of cancer including these and many others:

• Brain
• Breast
• Stomach
• Colon
• Rectal
• Lymphatic
• Bone

2. Diabetes – Types I & II

3. Vascular Diseases including:

• Heart
• Stroke
• Hyperlipidemia – Fats in the blood
• Arteriosclerosis
• High Blood Pressure

4. Degenerative Arthritis – joint problems – neck, back, hips, knees, ankles, hands

5. Liver disease

6. Kidney disease

7. Cholelithiasis – gall stones

8. Menstrual abnormalities

9. Female infertility

10. Amenorrhea – missing multiple periods

11. Decline in libido

12. Neurological Disorders

13. Mental Illnesses

14. Skin Diseases

Every one of these self induced injuries evolves into a tragic manifestation with life altering or life ending consequences. All of them are avoidable by learning what to consume, how to consume it and when and most important of all, how to evacuate waste material in sync with our intakes.

Good health and fitness are completely dependent upon regular, multiple daily bowel movements. Regularity promotes bowel health. Without good bowel health we are in bad health - it's as simple as that. This is not something that can be ignored with impunity.

Constipation can be thought of as an internal game of Russian Roulette. Sooner or later, the slug is in the chamber and it's game over.

The injuries listed are reversible if “caught” in time by establishing or re-establishing sound body management practices. That would include a colonoscopy once every five years after you've achieved over-weight status.

The condition of being over weight, if unchecked, becomes a condition we call obesity – at that point you are so over weight, you have difficulty or are unable to easily perform normal physical activities.

Once you’re over weight, all of the various systems upon which your body runs become increasingly impaired and degenerate in lockstep towards systemic failure. Our bodies don't "go wrong one thing at a time". When we fail to look after our bodies, every aspect of our bodies deteriorates in unison. The symptoms we notice first are merely an indication of which organ or system is the weakest link in the phsiological chain we call our bodies.

Our bodies have five primary regulatory systems:

1) Pancreas

2) Limbic system of the brain

3) Adrenal

4) Thyroid

5) Estrogenic hormones and xenoestrogens

All of these systems are interdependent. Throw one out of whack and like dominos, every other system is affected.

People who have weight problems tend to eat certain types of foods – maybe only in relatively small quantities, but frequently and at the wrong times. These typically are high in carbohydrates and in the simple sugar or starchy forms. Even if you aren’t eating excessive "amounts" of food, the timing of the consumption can also play a decisive role.

Over-weight people share certain common traits: constipation, insufficient quality sleep, higher than necessary calorie intake, excessive starchy/sugary carbohydrate consumption, and too little or a complete absence of strenuous physical activity. This leads to mental and/or emotional stress and when combined with exposure to toxic agents in your environment the cycle of poor choices becomes entrenched, normalized and habituallized.

As I mentioned in another post, people who have been yo-yo dieting or have nutritionally deprived themselves through sporadic eating and insufficient exercise are special cases. Just about anything they eat becomes a weight gain that is monumentally difficult to shed without a serious commitment to thorough, sweat inducing physical workouts every day.

A living body is a storage battery hardwired to an electric motor. Batteries and their motors function best when they are tuned to fuel intake and energy expended in equal measures.

When there is no fuel intake, you have a dead battery and no power. Thus the motor cannot function. It is dead.

When there is fuel intake, the battery stores it to convert it into power or work when needed.

If there is fuel intake and fuel storage but never any work or enough work to equal constant fuel intake, the battery overloads and explodes. The human body is more elastic than a mechanical assembly so as more and more fuel is added to our bodies, our bodies add storage capacity by elastic expansion of our cells and by adding new cells.

It stands to reason that if the work never uses up the stored energy capacity, then the stored energy capacity is going to keep expanding until it also reaches overload – and something explodes. Unlike a battery, the human or any other animal body doesn’t blow to pieces. Rather, the weakest component suffering the most stress ruptures. We call those ruptures strokes, heart attacks, vascular lesions and so on.

Just like in a regular battery, stored power in the human battery eventually causes problems for the casing. When batteries for flashlights fail, they leak acid because the acid eventually eats through the battery walls. When our body’s storage capacity fails, the same thing happens. Stored fat becomes acidic and the acid eats through your cell walls. This is an extremely simplified explanation, but essentially, that's what happens. Once your body becomes acidic, it becomes self-destructive just like a leaking battery in a radio. When we eat acidic, mucus forming foods to excess, we are re-engineering our body chemistry as though we intended to kill it in the shortest possible time. When we don’t exercise and eat and drink acid forming food and beverages, life expectancy is cut by decades and quality of life is ruined.

So how do you make an informed, healthy food choice that won’t make matters worse? A good place to start is to find out what the difference is between mucus forming and mucus free food. Look for information about Mucus Free eating and drinking in the Diets section.

[daguy]

It is now widely accepted that being overweight does has serious health risks, it is a shame that our society promotes overeating and unhealthy eating at each corner.

A little willpower and some common sense go a long way. It is very possible to lose weight while eating healthy, great tasting food.

[JetePlentuara]

I agree with your KorbinD.

[gundas]

Great post gullyformyle. These are one of the many things people should be aware of. Thank you for sharing.