Steps to Weight Loss

Steps to Healthy Weight Loss
Understanding Obesity - A Power Point Presentation

Steps to Healthy Weight Loss

The first step toward any goal is a desire to reach it. Health and wellness can be a gift, but most often is something you need to obtain, often with considerable effort.

It is very difficult to reach any goal without an understanding of how to get there. Present day marketing would have you believe that there are thousands of different ways. Judging from the increasingly alarming statistics of our obesity epidemic, it is obvious that what we are doing is not working.

There is beginning to be a consensus that improvement in our obesity epidemic will not happen until individuals take personal responsibility for their health and make the right lifestyle choices. It is not something that others can do to you or for you.

There is a lot of good information out there about the need for adequate water intake, the need to keep stress under control, get proper rest, and the need to exercise. Information about 'how to eat right' still is stuck on the institutionalized misinformation of the Nutritional Guidelines, which have not changed significantly for the last 30 years.

These food guidelines completely ignore the nutritional science discoveries of the last 3 decades. The new nutritional science of glycobiology (10 years old), the concept of insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome, and the concept of cellular nutrition, and the need for good saturated fats are not recognized in the food pyramid concept.

The increase of obesity in all age groups is due to the metabolic syndrome. The severity of this syndrome can be measured by a blood insulin test. Test levels vary between 2 and 25. Levels of 3 to 6 are ideal and levels of 6 to 8 are OK. Levels of 10 and above are a warning that it will be only a matter of time until obesity or one of the other chronic diseases will manifest itself. There probably is a family tendency predisposing to which of the chronic diseases you will get.

Elevated insulin levels can be brought down to normal with exercise and eating foods that do not elevate your blood sugar enough to call on your body to produce more insulin. There is a significant wild card here in that excito-toxins like MSG and aspartate also stimulate the pancreas to produce more insulin. These chemicals have been added to much of our prepared food supply. They are put into foods for taste enhancers and artificial sweeteners, and need to be avoided like the plague.

High insulin levels are toxic to cells because they cause glycation (oxidization) of the fine sugar filaments on each cell (cell receptors). These receptors enable cells to communicate cellular needs and keep tissues healthy. These glyconutrients normally come from dietary fresh, ripe, fruits and vegetables. Especially in the northern climates, these nutrients are often deficient in our diets and therefore frequently need to be supplemented. Although there is variability of individuals to make these sugars through more than 25 enzymatic steps from only lactose and glucose, a great majority of individuals have lost this ability, due to glycoprotein cell receptor destruction by insulin resistance, high blood sugars, and, and excitotoxins.

These last paragraphs tell much of what you really need to know about obesity and will help you develop a plan for sensible weight loss. Exercise decreases your insulin level. Extra water will help you get rid of the toxins that are always in fatty tissue. Eating low glycemic foods that don't raise you blood sugar will not call on your body to make more insulin. Healthy saturated fats in you diet will control your hunger and teach your body how to burn fat. Avoiding all excito-toxins will help to keep your cells healthy and help keep you insulin level down.

You will need to make healthy food choices, you will not need to diet, but start 'eating right' for the rest of your life.

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