Childhood obesity rates in the USA have increased by 300% since 1980. Today, 1 in 6 children between 6 and 19 years old are either overweight or obese.
It is estimated that 70% of overweight adolescents go on to become overweight or obese in adulthood. As obesity increases the chances of suffering a heart attack, stroke or dying early from any cause, the US health system should brace itself for an onslaught of sick fatties in the next 20-30 years.
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1 Jacob from Stair Lifts // Nov 29, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Obesity is really a growing epidemic in the US and other Western Cultures. Its no surprise either, when you look at how unhealthy most of our food is. I try to avoid processed food and places like McDonalds, but for some, that is all they eat.
I think Diabetes is another big problem that is related to obesity and our diet here in the US…
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2 Roger OBrian // Jul 22, 2010 at 1:42 pm
Toxins and Obesity
If you have a difficult time losing weight, it may be a result of the toxins that are constantly being introduced into your bloodstream. The more fat your body has, the more toxins it will retain, and as you lose weight those fat cells will release toxins into the bloodstream. Once the toxins are in the bloodstream, they can cause harm to the body.
Detoxification is the process of binding up these toxins and releasing them from the body.
Although the study of detoxification and its impact on obesity is relatively new, researchers do understand some of the mechanisms involved with how toxins impact weight gain. In particular, toxins can impact your ability to lose weight in three significant ways:
• Toxins slow your metabolism
• Toxins decrease your ability to burn fat
• Toxins slow down the satiety response time (the time it takes you to feel full)
Toxins Slow Your Metabolism
In the past it was thought that your resting metabolic rate (RMR) declined with weight loss primarily because of the decrease in caloric intake or changes in the ratio of muscle to fat. But clinical studies are now showing just how toxic internal toxins can be to our weight loss efforts.
One of the first things toxins do when released into the bloodstream is slow down your RMR. So, as you begin to lose weight, those surfacing toxins begin to inhibit your ability to lose weight. However, if you can eliminate those toxins from the body quickly enough during or before a period of weight loss, you may be able to reduce the decline in your metabolism.
Toxins Decrease Your Ability to Burn Fat
The last thing you want to hear is that something in your blood is preventing your body from burning fat, but that is just what toxins can do. In 1971, for example, a study at the University of Nevada Division of Biochemistry determined that chemical toxins weakened by 20 percent the co-enzyme necessary to burn fat in the body. In 2002, researchers concluded that toxins released during weight loss had the capacity to damage the fat-burning mitochondria.1
The damage was significant enough to negatively impact the body’s ability to burn calories and, in effect, fat.
I have dedicated my life to All Natural and Organic living. I’m trying to help educate others through my store, my facebook fan page and great blogs like this. You can click on my name and follow the link to my store, plus the links for my facebook fan page are located on my store’s website. I encourage everyone to post articles on my facebook fan page that help educate people and also take articles to post them on your websites. We can beat America’s Health problem by educating as many people as we can about the dangers of mass produced, genetically modified, un-natural and chemically enhanced food most people consume. Only when we can show big business that we’re incontrol because we demand better quality over their profits and quantity, can we really beat Obesity and other Health issues in the US.
Thank you and I hope to be posting more articles on this blog in the near future. I hope everyone will spread this information or their own on the subject.
3 malc // Jul 27, 2010 at 1:15 pm
Gosh Roger – humungous comment!
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