The organs that will help you in your quest – the liver, kidneys, skin, colon, lymph, lungs, and fat cells.

Your over-worked liver is one of your main allies, in the fight against weight problems, fluid retention and cellulite. Help your liver, help you loss-weight and gain-wellness.

One of the liver’s many jobs is to break down substances into less harmful compounds. It breaks them down into more manageable component ready for removal from the body. This process alone uses up an enormous amount of nutrients and resources. In the case of artificial sweeteners, you are voluntarily putting chemicals into your body further polluting your system.

Certain foods act like a drug

Some foods literally act like ‘drug foods’ as they create a false high in the brain, they change the brain chemistry – a feel good factor for a short time (like a drug such as nicotine or alcohol). Some people overeat, consuming loads of refined processed foods giving them a temporary high, leaving them malnourished, as these foods will use up valuable resources, depleting the body’s reserves. These are what are called ‘empty calories’. They will leave you wanting more. They will eventually drain your energy and alter your brain chemistry.

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fruit is the enemy

fruit is full of sugar

fat is bad

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Some people say they are overweight because they inherited the problem from their parents. They are right but only to a small extent, maybe they have inherited a tendency to be overweight but they don’t have to make it your lives work. They can play to this weakness with an inactive lifestyle and a poor diet or off-set it with an active lifestyle and good nutrition.

It’s up to you – you can take control.

Do not overlook a very important fact, that bad habits are learned inherited so to speak, and taste buds are developed from childhood depending on what your parents fed you. Born in Japan you will have a fondness for raw fish, born in the US you might have a fondness for doughnuts. This is not inherited genes.

The fat cells of an overweight person

An enzyme found in adipose tissue (fat cells) called lipoprotein lipase (LPL) helps the body to store fat, for the lean times. Transporting fat from the blood to the fat cells depends on this enzyme. In people who have restricted their diet to lose weight, the activity of LPL is much increased!!!!!!

The very action of dieting greatly increases the activity of this potent, fat-storing enzyme, a lot of people have found once they start eating again they regain weight, sometimes a little extra just for good measure.

Cellulite and/or fluid retention

This is a type of body fat found almost exclusively in women, and generally collects on the thighs and looks a little lumpy, often referred to as orange peel skin. Normal dieting doesn’t usually make that much difference, to this type of condition.

Many toxic substances are not dissolved in water so the kidneys are unable to deal with them all (especially when it has too much to deal with) and remove them efficiently. If you’re liver is also not coping so well, these compounds build up in your body, so the excess is stored in your fat cells. Like a toxic reservoir. You may not like the appearance but it’s safer there.