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There are several causes of obesity, and there is much you can do to reduce or eliminate obesity. Here, we will address all of them and provide information of how to avoid these causes. |
This, then, is not so much a recommendation for a diet, but effective advice about avoiding and eliminating what makes us fat.
Taking in more calories than you are burning off in work, chores, exercise or play is one of the fundamental causes of obesity. Another is the ingestion of growth hormones, pseudo-estrogens and antibiotics in food and plastic containers. Another recent and novel claim is that a common virus causes fat cells to proliferate far beyond their normal replacement rates.
We will begin with the last cause first, as it is the quickest to deal with, as there is only one readily available remedy.
The Obesity Virus
As strange as it may sound, and as far fetched as it may be that a virus causes obesity, there is a highly effective, and highly nutritious remedy. The complete natural range of the 72 trace elements in seafood is supremely effective against viruses. And a daily serving of a minimum of 4 - 6 ounces of any kind of seafood will provide the body with the full range of the natural trace elements it needs to stay healthy and well. See
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It takes about 3 months of faithful adhesion to this nutritional regime before the body is fully topped up with the 72 natural trace elements.
Other valid sources are of the nutritional 72 trace elements are all virgin wild foods which grow on soils that have never been cultivated, food grown with ample fish, seaweed or kelp meal fertilizers, and food grown in the traditional way by returning all life-wastes to the soil, as still done in undeveloped and some developing countries.
Avoiding Growth Hormones, Anti-biotics and Pseudo-Estrogens
Since our beef, hogs, lamb and fowl are doused with growth hormones and anti-biotics, all of which cause rapid and unnatural weight gain, cut down as much as possible on beef, pork, lamb and poultry. Switch to fish and seafood instead, which is free of these things, much much healthier, and has less calories to boot. Or find "organic" producers who do not douse their livestock with growth hormones and anti-biotics.
As mentioned previously, also get rid of all plastics and pesticides in your home environment. They contain pseudo-estrogens which cause weight gain, among a host of other ills, including cancer.
Banish all plastic dishes, glasses, implements, cutlery, cutting boards and plastic containers for food from your kitchen, and banish plastic baby bottles, pacifiers and toys from your home. Buy food in glass, metal or waxed paper containers, instead of plastic containers, whenever possible. Buy milk, for instance, in waxed cardboard containers, rather than plastic bags or jugs. Store food in saved glass jars - pickle, jam jars, etc. - rather than plastic containers. And avoid plastic wraps for food, and particularly so when heating food in a microwave.
Banishing plastics from your home environment is particularly important for pregnant women and mothers of infants and small children. What may be a very small dose for an adult human being is an immense dose for a small foetus, and a huge dose for an infant, toddler or young child.
So, avoid, at all costs, plastic baby bottles and pacifiers for your babies, as well as all plastic toys, and particularly those which a toddler or child can put in its mouth.
And banish all insecticides, fungicides and herbicides from your garden and households - not only for their pseudo-estrogen endocrine disrupters but also for the damage they do to our neural systems. Again, and as always, the smallest of us are the most severely affected.
Reducing Calories
There are two ways of reducing calories; burning them by work, chores, exercise and play - and reducing the intake of calories. Since there are no end of recommendations regarding exercise everywhere, we will just focus on reducing the intake of calories here.
The basic ideas is to chose foods which will provide satisfying bulk and a feeling of fullness, without adding much in the way of calories. Vegetables and fruit are familiar examples, all of which provide a fair amount of bulk along with vitamins, minerals, enzymes and anti-oxidants - while adding only a few calories.
And seafood provides the healthiest protein available (as mentioned above), along with the crucially vital 72 natural trace elements, and the equally vital Omega-3 fatty acids - while adding the least amount of calories. Typical amounts of calories per serving of meat, without rich sauces of course, are as follows:
- Pork - cooked, 390 calories
- Beef - cooked, 190 calories
- Chicken - skinless, cooked, 120 calories
- Cod - skinless, cooked, 94 calories
- Salmon - canned, chunk in water, 60 calories
- Tuna - canned, chunk in water, 60 calories
Of these, seafood provides a great tasty meal with only salt and pepper, and a few drops of lemon juice added, and perhaps a bit of dill, garlic or parsley for added flavour. And it would be very good to eliminate the salt - since salt causes retention of water - as all seafood contains sufficient amounts of salt naturally.
And if sauteed in a couple of tablespoons of vegetable or chicken stock, instead of oil or butter, this further reduces the amount of calories. When faced with obesity, additional fat is the last thing we need, since all meats contain ample amount of fat for our nutritional needs.
Baking seafood, perhaps with vegetable or chicken stock, or a plain mustard sauce, with a dash of lemon and a few herbs, is also an excellent way of reducing the fat and calories in a tasty and satisfying meal.
Similarly, vegetables can be cooked and flavoured without fat, or steamed with a few drops of lemon juice and perhaps a bit of garlic and a few spices, or sauteed in a couple of tablespoons of chicken stock, for a healthy and delicious side dish. Try to use organic vegetables whenever possible for their freedom from agricultural herbicides and pesticides.
And avoid pasta as much as possible in favour of rice, or better yet, potatoes. Of these, potatoes provide the same satisfying bulk per serving with much fewer calories - as follows:
- Pasta - cooked, 200 calories
- Rice - cooked, 160 calories
- Potatoes - peeled, cooked, 70 calories
Potatoes are also richer in vitamins and enzymes than pasta. Potatoes are also extremely versatile, from plain cooked, to baked, boiled, roasted, mashed, fried, in soups and casseroles, in shepherds pies, or made into endless varieties of tasty potato salads, they offer a delicious and satisfying accompaniment to any meal, or a meal in itself - including breakfast. Raw, shredded potatoes with a bit of flour can be fried into delicious potato pancakes and served with apple sauce, for a delicious, filling, very satisfying and low calories breakfast.
Next are raw vegetable salads, either as accompaniment to meals, or as a light lunch, or as a low calorie 'filler' between meals, when hunger pangs strike. Make them with your choice of favourite vegetables - such as leaf lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, peppers, zucchini, and so forth, even a few slivers of apple or orange perhaps - with a light and tasty vinaigrette.
And to avoid unnecessary fat, eliminate the traditional oil from the vinaigrettes. Leave it out. It is not needed, It just makes things greasy. In my view, vinaigrettes are much tastier and better without oil. And there are endless variations of vinaigrettes, from the traditional and familiar North American, to French, Italian, Greek, Chinese and Japanese style vinaigrettes. And be not afraid to mix them up. Greek style with a touch of soy sauce for instance; yummy.
These salads will fill you up, provide healthy nutrition - and more so when made with organic produce - will reduce your intake of food at meals if taken 1/2 hour before a meal, and all this with very few calories.
Things to Avoid
Avoid pasta, pastries, cakes and cookies, doughnuts, rich chocolate concoctions, ice cream and all the other usual fattening suspects.
Avoid wheat flour, bread and buns. Use rice flower instead, rice cakes, and use corn starch for thickening soups and sauces.
Avoid French fries and all other deep fried foods; the fat is the last thing we need.
Avoid all soft drinks, they are nothing but high calorie water. Use mint or peppermint tea instead; a tasty, highly refreshing, and much healthier drink.
Avoid salt. We are getting far too much salt in our prepared foods and restaurant meals already. It just gets you high blood pressure later in life, with all the medical complications including strokes and heart attacks. Worse though, it causes you to retain water in your body, adding to the bulk.
Finally, keep the temperature of your surroundings a touch on the cool side whenever possible. This forces your body to burn calories to keep you warm. This alone, surprisingly, can amount to losing 1 pound in a week.
The information contained in this website is not intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment by a qualified professional. The information on this site is presented for the sole purpose of outlining general information about a massive and powerful nutritional breakthrough in our collective and individual health. By presenting this information, this web site is NOT providing any medical or health care advice. Anything anyone does is entirely and completely at their own risk, and should only be undertaken with the knowledge and under the supervision of their physician.
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