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Quote: Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner and fat people fatter. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966 Let me begin this article with a shocking revelation by this simple question! Do you find yourself accepting often without thinking about health tips and hints that these ideas are gospel truth? If so, you are not alone. A confidence of some doctors, drug companies, patients and the media combine to create fear around pseudo disease. Culture and communications also influence us to worry about our ‘adverse’ bodies and our ‘poor’ health. As much as medical facts do. But, now here’s the good news! Here is the naked truth laid bare for you to ponder! Believe it or not! Adverse combined food reactions are dangerous. They are a powerful array of forces. Any one of these forces can make you fat. The combination of all five is almost certain to make you feel as if your own metabolism is your worst enemy. Enough of side tracking at least for now. Let’s dig into the core of this article! Shall we? Thanks! Weight Loss Stumbling Blocks No.1 Food reactions slow down the metabolic rate Makes no mistake! Adverse food reactions will partly block the absorption of essential fatty acids, which rev up your metabolism, just like oxygen revs up a fire. Some common false fat foods, including several of the dangerous commonly reactive foods, prevent full absorption of the essential fatty acids. Among the foods that do this are eggs, wheat, dairy products and sugar. What you are about to read in this paragraph may shock you. Food reactions also slow your metabolism by gradually depleting your supply of adrenaline. When this happens, your metabolism can become sluggish and more prone to storing fat. Another way food reactions slow your metabolism is by interference with the hormonal balance of your thyroid gland. This is directly involved with metabolic rate and the burning of fat. You will know your thyroid may be malfunctioning if you are especially sensitive to cold; if you are depressed, lethargic, or prone to easy weight gain; of if you have dry skin or are losing hair. Next up! Weight Loss Stumbling Blocks No.2. Food reactions also hurt your metabolism by increasing hormones that cause weight gain. Consider these puzzling scenarios. In most foods, several hormones are involved, and they're all very important. Insulin is probably the most obvious hormone that can make you gain weight. If your body produce too much of it, it moves excessive amounts of blood sugar into your cells and makes you fat. If your body produce too little of it, your cells become "hungry" and you tend to overeat to satisfy this hunger pangs. Food reactions can trigger both overproduction and underproduction, depending upon the types of reactive foods you eat. Food reactions can even contribute to a condition called insulin resistance. In which the quality of insulin declines and insulin has a hard time moving blood sugar into cells. An estimated 20-25% of the population has at least a moderate degree of insulin-resistance, brought on in part by over-consumption of carbohydrates. This condition is more common now than it used to be, partly because a common dietary approach of the 198O’s was centered on high-carbohydrate diets, based mostly around grain products. Another hormone that can impair fat burning is the adrenal hormone cortisol, which is increased by food reactions. Cortisol reduces the activity of a natural fat-burning enzyme called delta 6-desaturase. A shortage of this enzyme makes it much harder to lose weight. Cortisol is increased by eating too much refined starch and sugar. It is also drastically increased by stress. Therefore, stress can indirectly contribute to weight gain-even when it doesn’t cause to over-eat. Besides disturbing the levels of hormones, food reactions also make you gain weight more easily caused by hypoglycemia. As you probably remember, hypoglycemia or low blood sugar is also a major factor in food cravings. In fact, cravings and metabolic problems are closely related. What you are about to read next, it's no rocket science but easy as ABC. Continue reading and see if you prove me wrong! Aright? Weight Loss Stumbling Blocks No.3. Food reactions cause hypoglycemia Believe it or not, wrong choice of foods can actually cause serious hypoglycemia Strangely it is done mostly by interfering with the hormones that help control blood sugar levels, such as insulin and adrenaline. Make no mistakes! Food reactions also indirectly contribute to hypoglycemia by prompting you to eat foods that trigger hypoglycemia, such as refined starches and sugar. When you have hypoglycemia, you have an overwhelming urge to eat in order to raise your blood sugar levels. You feel weak, tired; mentally foggy, and irritable. Hypoglycemia appears to be more common now than ever before, due mostly to our society's heavy intake of refined grains, sugar, and processed foods. Ironically, many people who have tried hard to eat wisely have become hypoglycemic, because they ate too many carbohydrates and not enough protein. People who live on carbohydrates, mostly fruits, grains, and starchy vegetables-become hypoglycemic more easily than people who have a more balanced diet, with higher amounts of protein. Interestingly, hypoglycemia can be directly caused not only by food reactions, but also by allergies and sensitivities to non-food substance, such as toxic gas, and even cigarette smoke. Again, as you can see, it is not just food that makes you fat. Weight Loss Stumbling Blocks No.4.food reactions make you gain fat is by making you feel sick and fatigued. Can we pause here just for a moment? Could we ask you one question? Alright. Here goes, ‘Are you getting into this, or it is rubbing you the wrong way?’ To continue, then when you feel like this, it’s almost impossible to lose weight. You don’t feel like exercising and you may feel so discouraged that you go off your healthy diet. Let’s give a shout to the last stumbling block. No problem? Weight Loss Stumbling Blocks No.5. Food reactions also help cause serious medical conditions Don’t’ get me wrong. Such serious medical conditions may include migraines, irritable bowel syndromes, insomnia, chronic pain, arthritis, skin rashes, sinus problem and chronic fatigue syndrome. Any one of these conditions can destroy your quality of life and make you turn away from exercise and prudent eating. Even when they don’t t make you sick, food reactions still sap your energy. When the energy loss becomes sever, you can feel almost tired as if you had a bad cold. The energy draining immune response caused by food reactions can feel similar to the fatiguing immune response caused by a virus. Even when this energy loss is not severe, though it can still be very troublesome. You might feel weak, lethargic and unmotivated but no know why. In a nutshell it can be said that food reactions can create five metabolic roadblocks to weight loss. Firstly, they slow the melabolitic rate. Secondly, they increase the hormones that cause weight gain. Thirdly, they create hypoglycemia. Fourthly, they depress energy. And lastly they contribute to illness which makes regular exercise much more difficult. To conclude let me share a few parting words with you. Diet, exercise and etc guidelines can provide you with a framework for making these healthy changes, but ultimately it's up to you to devise your own rules and come up with your own strategies for healthy living. In the largest study of successful dieters to date, researchers have found that sticking with a low-fat, low-calorie diet and exercising regularly helped the participants shed and keep off at least 30 pounds. That’s all I have to say at least for now. Goodbye and good luck. End. Legal Notice The Writer has strive to be as accurate and complete as possible in the creation of this article, books, reports notwithstanding the fact that he does not warrant or represent at any time that the contents within are accurate due to the rapidly changing nature of the Internet. While all attempts have been made to verify information provided in this article, the writer assumes no responsibility for errors, omissions, or contrary interpretation of the subject matter herein. Any perceived slights of specific persons, peoples, or organizations are unintentional. In practical advice books, articles and reports , like anything else in life, there are no guarantees of income or good health made. 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