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How Liquid Calories May Be Making You Fat… Even Your Favorite Protein Drinks!
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At least 7 scientific studies have provided strong evidence that energy containing beverages (i.e., “liquid calories”) do not properly activate the satiety mechanisms in the body and brain and do not satisfy the appetite as well as food in solid form.
Epidemiological research also supports a positive association between calorie-containing beverage consumption and increased body weight or body mass index. New research now suggests that soda may not be the only culprit…
The primary source of liquid calories in the United States Diet is carbohydrate, namely soda. Now running a close second are specialty and dessert coffees. Did you know that a 16 ounce Frappucino can contain 500 calories or even more! That’s one-third of a typical female’s daily calorie intake while on a fat loss program.
A recent study at Purdue University published in the International Journal of Obesity set out to learn even more about this bodyfat – liquid calories relationship.
Researchers compared solid and beverage forms of foods composed primarily of carbohydrate, fat or protein in order to document the independent effect of food form in foods with different dominant macronutrient sources.
Based on previous research, some experts have recommended targeting specific beverages as being “worse” than others. High fructose corn syrup and soda has been singled out the most and you’ve probably seen that yourself in the news.
There’s no question that soda has been on top of the “hit list” for some time now, by virtue of the amounts and frequency of consumption alone.
However, this recent study says that from a pure energy balance perspective, we should be cautious about ALL liquid calories, not just soda and not just carbohydrates!
Fruit juice for example, appears to be an obvious improvement over soda, so many people have swapped out their soda for fruit juice. However, when fruit juice is compared to an equal amount of calories from whole fruit, the whole fruit satisfies appetite better (largely due to the bulk and fiber content), and so you tend to eat fewer calories for the day.
[On an interesting side note, soup does not seem to apply; soup has higher satiety value than calorie containing beverages, possibly for mere cognitive reasons.]
If you were to meticulously track your calories from beverages and you made sure that your calories remained the same for the day, whether liquid or solid, there would probably be little or no difference in your body composition.
But that’s not what usually happens in free-living humans. Most people do not accurately track or report their caloric intake. Our mistake is that we tend to drink calories IN ADDITION TO our usual food intake, not instead of it.
Men are especially guilty of this when they drink alcohol – Men tend to drink AND eat, while women tend to drink INSTEAD OF eating.
This new research found that with all three macronutrients – protein, carbs or fat – daily calorie intake was significantly greater when the beverage form was consumed as compared to the solid.
Yes, it’s true! Even protein drinks did not satisfy the appetite the way that protein foods did!
While you would think that protein drinks are purely a good thing, because protein foods have been proven to reduce appetite and increase satiety, if you turn a solid protein food into a protein drink, it loses it’s appetite suppressive properties in the same way that happens when you turn fruit into fruit juice.
[NOTE: After weight training workouts, liquid nutrition may have benefits that outweigh any downside, especially on muscle-gaining programs]
Why do liquid calories fail to elicit the same response as whole foods? reasons include:
* high calorie density
* lower satiety value
* more calories ingested in short period of time
* lower demand for oral processing
* shorter gastrointestinal transit times
* energy in beverages has greater bioaccessibility and bioavailability
* mechanisms may include cognitive, orosensory, digestive, metabolic, endocrine and neural influences (human appetite is a complex thing!!!)
* last but not least, nowhere in our history have our ancestors had access to large amounts of liquid calories. Alcohol may have been around as far back as several thousand years BC, but even that is a blip on the evolutionary calendar of humanity.
As a result, our genetic code has never developed the physiological mechanisms to properly register the caloric content in liquids the way it does when you eat, chew and swallow whole foods.
Bottom line: This study suggests that we shouldn’t just target one type of liquid calories such as soda. If you’re trying to beat body fat, it’s wise to limit all types of liquid calories and eat whole foods as much as possible.
Start by ditching the soda. Then ditch the high calorie dessert coffees. Then cut back on the alcohol. From there, be cautious even about milk, juice and protein drinks.
Drink water or tea instead, or limited amounts of black coffee – without all the high calorie extras.
If you do consume any beverages that contain calories, such as protein shakes, be sure to account for those calories meticulously and be sure you don’t drink them in addition to your usual food intake, but in place of an equal amount of food calories.
Remember, those protein shakes you might be drinking are called “meal replacements” not “free calories!”
For many years I have suggested focusing primarily on whole foods rather than liquids, even protein shakes. Unlike so many other fat reduction programs, Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle does not require any kind of liquid meal replacement or protein drinks and our company does not exist to sell supplements; we are here to educate you and millions of others about the realities of body fat loss.
We now have even more scientific data that confirms what Burn The Fat has been teaching all along.
I hope you found this helpful. You can learn more about “Burn The Fat” at www.BurnTheFat.com
Train hard and expect success,
Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS
Fat Loss Coach
www.BurnTheFat.com
Reference: Effects of food form on appetite and energy intake in lean and obese young adults. International Journal of Obesity. 2007 Nov (11):1688-95. Mourao DM, Bressan J, Campbell WW, Mattes RD. Department of Foods and Nutrition, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2059, USA.
About the Author:
Tom Venuto, NSCA-CPT, CSCS
Tom Venuto is a natural bodybuilder, certified personal trainer and freelance fitness writer. Tom is the author of “Burn the Fat, Feed The Muscle,” which teaches you how to get lean without drugs or supplements using secrets of the world’s best bodybuilders and fitness models. Learn how to get rid of stubborn fat and increase your metabolism by visiting: www.burnthefat.com
Tapeworm Diet – Are You Nuts?
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The Parasitic Tapeworm Diet
The Tapeworm diet – can you believe people would even consider this? If I am not mistaken, parasites (like tape worms) are bad for you. The premise is the tapeworms secrete proteins that make digestion of food less efficient. I thought complete digestion of food was a good thing. The incomplete digestion of food causes a myriad of maladies.
Lets list a few negatives of the Tapeworm Diet:
- malabsorption of nutrients
- malnutrition
- IBS
- cysticercosis
- lack of energy
- poor immune function
- opportunistic diseases
- bad gut bacteria, funguses, yeast…
- poor elimination
- poor detoxification
There are many more bad effects of incomplete digestion, I have just listed a few.
The other part of the supposed weight loss from the tapeworm diet is the tapeworms themselves consume the food in your gut rather than you. Ok, what about the size and weight of the parasite(s)? Doesn’t that contribute to your weight? What about the damage to the lining of your stomach or intestines where they choose to anchor themselves
(with teeth). Do you think the perforations this causes can be good for you? What about the larvae that can migrate to your brain and cause seizures and other neurological problems as they feed on your brain or any other organ? Last I checked, parasitic infections were considered bad and sometimes fatal.
I don’t know about you but I cherish my brain and like the ability to think – not to mention my other organs. This may not be important to others, but I like using my brain and god given talents for solving problems and making me and my family’s life more fulfilling and meaningful.
How about the fact that some tape worms can grow as long as 50 feet! – depending upon type of tapeworm – Diphyllobothrium, Taenia saginata (T. saginata) and Taenia solium (T. solium), Echinococcus – parasitic flatworms called cestodes or cyclophyllids? They are segmented and each segment is capable of producing eggs. If you are lucky, they will pass with a bowel movement – worms in the toilet, how appetizing. Sometimes they will hang from your anus while the other end is fastened in your digestive tract – SEXY!
Alright, is it just me or does this gross you out? Why would you put something in your body that is the scourge of the third world? Doctors fight parasitic infections of millions of people every year and you are going to intentionally introduce them into your body?
One to two pounds a week is so easy to lose you don’t need worms to do it. Instead of using dangerous parasites, why not use natural substances, two breakthrough ingredients, irvingia and fucoxanthin. Together, they safely suppress your appetite and rebalance your body’s “fat signals.” That means your body makes less fat. And the fat your body does have gets burned for energy, instead of being stored. The result is you eat less and enjoy the kind of body you had back in your college days, when you could eat whatever and not immediately feel it in your backside or around your belly.
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Emotional Eating
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Emotions can be deadly.
At least when it comes to eating.
And the VAST majority of us are “emotional eaters.” And that leads to excess bodyfat.
We eat when we are stressed-out.
We eat when we are overly happy.
We eat when we are depressed.
And when you eat like this you can kiss your fatloss goodbye.
There’s a 4-minute video that I want you to watch today.
It is touching, funny, and very powerful all at the same time.
And it will help you come to terms with emotional eating.
Go here –
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And I KNOW you will benefit from it.
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Fat Is Contagious? New Research
Posted by: | Comments[ Editor's Note: Fitness author Jon Benson shared this letter with me and gave me permission to share it with you. ]
A Contagious Fat Virus?
It’s like a dream come true.
“Gaining bodyfat is the result of a virus.”
Wouldn’t that be great news?
Well…
Let me tell you about the AD-36 adenovirus. Adenoviruses are the same nasty bugs that cause the common cold. We all have these viruses in various forms in our body all the time.
That last bit is a critical distinction.
Remember that.
The Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana has been doing some really ground-breaking research on AD-36. AD-36 affects stem cells… more specifically fat cells, both pre-formed and post-formed.
This means AD-36 can make MORE fat cells if contracted as an infant and make your fat cells larger if contracted as an adult. Also known as the obesity virus.
Or so the theory goes.
To quote the study:
“Earlier researchers have concluded that Ad-36 may be contributors to obesity by super-charging fat cells to grow and store more fat. Until now, though, those researchers thought the viruses targeted pre-fat cells (called pre-adipocytes), causing them to convert in higher numbers to fat cells and causing those fat cells to be larger. Those studies were in mice. Pasaricas work determines the virus targets stem cells in humans.”
The result?
“In one test, a third of obese people had the rare and highly contagious virus compared to just 11 percent of thinner people. Weight gain can last three months until the body has built up resistance to the bug.”
Wow. Sounds like we have a winner here. A virus that you can catch that literally makes you gain bodyfat! All we need is…
a vaccine!
Right?
Wrong.
First of all, notice that 11% of LEAN people have AD-36. And at any given time, just like a cold or a flu virus, you could contract AD-36. If your body has ‘never’ been exposed to it, you may require about 3 months to build up antibodies to ward it off.
Now, you can gain a lot of weight in 3 months… but come on. You cannot become obese in three months unless you are really, REALLY working at it.
Plus, like most viruses, you build up immunity to AD-36. Researchers do not know how long the immunity lasts, but some theorize it could last years… some even decades.
And let’s not forget those 11% who are lean and have the virus.
Why did they not all of a sudden get “sick” with bodyfat?
Because they are not EATING or LIVING in a way that allows them to gain bodyfat no matter what nasty freakin’ viruses may be floating about, that’s why.
That’s right folks: It is always going to come down to the food we put in our body and the way we move. Here’s another hypothesis presented by Sherry Strong, food philosopher and nutritionist: “This could very well be the result of nature creating a mutation to encourage us to eat more due to the fact our consumption of natural, whole and organic foods is so low.”
Brilliant observation… and one tha makes complete sense.
Even if a “virus” is responsible for 20% of our weight gain, what about the other 80%?
We do not need a vaccine other than good food and a common sense workout plan.
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Here’s one more:
You know better.
You know that there’s never going to be a magic pill for health, vitality, energy and looking your best.
We can keep hoping… or you can take action and get what you want now.
To me, that makes more sense than AD-36 “Super-Retro Fat-burning Vaccine” to hit the marketplace in 2021.
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Skinny Jeans Workout Review
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Skinny Jeans
Skinny Jeans Workout, a catchy name but just one of many similar workout routines that focuses on “core muscles”. Any workout with this much time and effort put in day after day will produce great results. Problem is most people do not have the motivation or time or willpower to put into such a program. Just like dieting, the motivation quickly fades. Sheer willpower is required to consistently plow through the routine to achieve results. Especially if you are out of shape, it makes it especially grueling.
Most people just do not have the drive to see this through. There is another, easier way to get into your skinny jeans – Appetite Suppressants – makes for easy diets. The main reason for diet failures is hunger, cravings and being overwhelmed with thoughts of food due to deprivation while your stomach is growling. Conquer this one thing and you can be in your skinny jeans and throw away your fat jeans in no time.
Trick Nature And Beat Hunger
Combine an effective appetite suppressant with some common sense eating and you have a win/win situation. Anybody can follow any diet if they are not hungry, think about it. To make weight loss effortless, try combining The Every Other Day Diet with an effective appetite suppressant for even more fat burning while eating the foods you enjoy. Using this approach will guarantee success. So get out your skinny jeans or get ready to buy some because now you have a foolproof weight loss plan. Go for the Skinny Jeans Workout if you are a masochist, otherwise take the easy way to getting thin.
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Every Other Day Diet Review
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Every Other Day Diet Plan
The Every Other Day Diet has been called the easiest diet on earth. Also known as EODD. Even the name tells you there are no sacrifices greater than 24 hours. Those “sacrifices” are no sacrifice at all, just more foods you love (in smaller portions). Developed by degreed fitness professionals (formerly obese themselves) who came up with an easy diet plan that works for everybody. Using the ultra easy SNAPP System.
Based on science, this diet plan keeps your metabolism stoked and burning fat using caloric cycling. Most diets end up slowing your metabolism by longer term calorie restriction making it easier to put the weight back on when the diet is done. The Every Other Day Diet plan can easily become a permanent weight loss, weight maintenance program.
By maintaining a high metabolism, your body burns fat for energy instead of storing body fat. You enjoy the increased energy and may even feel like exercising. Yes, you do need to get some exercise – brisk walking will do. You’ll definitely want to get off you butt with your new found energy.
Easy Diets
How This Easy Diet Works
- One day you eat super healthy high protein foods that are easy to make (calorie restricted).
- One day you eat “normally”
- Repeat
Think you can handle that? That’s it! It is scaled into 3 separate versions depending upon how fast you wish to lose weight – they all work.
Diet Program Also Includes:
- 3 Every Other Day Diet recipes a week (variety!)
- Weekly Tips and motivational emails
- Lifetime updates (currently version 2)
- A support forum
As you can see, you are not left on your own. You can share your success or ask questions in the forum. A positive place to get encouragement and advice.
Every other Day Diet Benefits:
- A permanent weight loss solution
- Easy diet to follow
- Body never adjusts, metabolism stays in fat burning mode
- No guilt
- More energy
- Foods you love – no strict diet
- Real food – not celery and salads
- No cravings
- No counting calories, fats or carbohydrates
- No diet stress
- Constant fat burning
- IT WORKS
You can see why it is called “The easiest diet on Earth”. There is no simpler, more effective, fat burning diet available. If you want an enjoyable diet that works and has no suffering or sacrificing for weeks at at time involved – This is it.
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Diets in general have a staggering failure rate. They actually set you up to fail by slowing your metabolism, starving you and leaving you with overwhelming cravings. You found one that is easy and avoids all of these common diet pitfalls. Go ahead and try the last diet you will ever need – the Every Other Day Diet!
If you are of extremely low will power, you can always use an appetite suppressant (easy diets) on the restrictive days making it absolutely fool proof.
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How to Lose Belly Fat
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Lose Belly Fat and Look Fantastic!
How to lose belly fat is the most asked about area of the body when it comes to fat loss. Next is the hips and butt. Unfortunately, you cannot spot lose fat. Losing fat in your belly will occur proportionately with the rest of your body – unless overriding genetics skew the even fat loss.
There are things you can do to make your belly look better and skinnier. By tightening the muscles of the stomach – abdominals or abs and obliques, you will regain a healthier, better looking shape. A healthy posture of stand / sit straight, shoulders back, gut sucked in (gently tightening stomach muscles) will also slenderize your mid-section.
To lose fat you must cut back your caloric intake. Cut back no more than 500 calories a day or your body will go into “starvation mode” and slow your metabolism to store fat for a potential famine (the body anticipates this). This is a survival mechanism that saves lives during famines, fortunately famine in “advanced” societies are rare. If you are at 2500 calories a day, cut back to 2000 calories. After a couple weeks you may cut calories gradually till you find your ultimate fat loss calorie zone.
The other angle of attack to lose weight / lose fat is to increase your metabolic rate. Your metabolic rate determines how many calories you burn even when at rest, even during sleep. Exercise is good for this. To achieve an all day long metabolic rate increase, you need to push your muscles past their comfort zones. Weight lifting, body weight exercises and sprinting all increase your body’s metabolic rate. Sprinting or wind sprints also improve lung and heart efficiency. The body was not designed for running long periods of time. You will have greater health and weight loss benefits doing sprints.
The third angle of attack is eating right. Not what the willy nilly “doctors” and “experts” tell you to eat. Do you know the average life expectancy of a doctor? It is about 20 years shorter than average – going to take their advice? Remember eggs are bad – wait, eggs are good, fats and butter are bad vegetable oils and margarine are better, wait vegetable oils and margarine are hydrogenated oils – cause weight gain, inflammation, heart disease… Notice how the food pyramid keeps changing? It depends who is funding the study. What your body needs to thrive and heal is protein, fat and fruit and vegetable based carbohydrates – not grains and breads. Think cave man diet – yep, back to basics not today’s processed “foods” that are completely void of any nutrition. If it comes in a box, a bag or a can – chances are there is little nutrition left.
Stay away from junk foods like cakes, donuts, candy, soda pop, chips… Besides the nutritionless high calorie content, chemicals and HFCS (high fructose corn syrup) disrupts your body’s natural hormonal balance and causes weight gain. Preservatives and flavor enhancers (MSG) fake sugars(Aspartame), fake fats(hydrogenated oils)and soy products all cause hormonal imbalances and increase your appetite even when your stomach is full. Avoid these and weight loss will be much easier.
In summary:
- Reduce caloric intake
- Increase your metabolism through exercise
- Eat good, nutritious foods
- Avoid poisons like preservatives, colors, flavor enhancers…
Tools to help you lose belly fat:
- Appetite Suppressant
- Mindset – Can do, Must have attitude
- Diet Plan
- Every Other Day Diet
- Determination – see it through
- Routine – Healthy Lifestyle
- Visualize yourself as already at your goal
- Skinny Jeans Workout
- Chest Fat
Make positive choices everyday and you will be well on your way to losing your belly fat and then some. Be healthy, be happy, be free!
Fat Head – More Government Lies
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Ever noticed how with all the government sponsored “science” on diet and heart disease, that America is getting fatter and heart disease is growing? Politicians are pushing their own opinions and agendas on the public and punishing scientists that do not agree with their ideas. The McGovern report and Ansel Keyes low fat, low cholesterol diet are the basis of this bad “science” that is being shoved down our throats by the FDA, USDA and the CDC.
There is a movie coming out which challenges these “truths” with common sense and objective science, not agenda based lies. How can they justify their proposed tax hikes on the foods they determine to be bad when the science behind their propositions is proven faulty?
Low fat diets do not prevent obesity or heart disease. Cholesterol does not cause heart disease. If small minded politicians have their way, we will all be vegetarians. They are probably loading their portfolios with stock in soybean tofu farms. Once they legislate their profits (and fail to pay the taxes us common folk are held to) they will be rich and not pay their “fair share”.
Enough criminal, I mean politician bashing. The point here is what is and has been shoved down our throats as “fact” is merely opinion. Scientists are afraid to speak up because politicians control the grant monies and only distribute the monies to scientists that agree with them. No wonder weight loss has become so hard for people when the weight loss programs are based on bad data.
Lets bring back common sense and objective science. We are not sheep, we can think for ourselves. Don’t let government control us as subjects, they work for us, the voters. We need to wake the voters up if we want to take back our freedom of choice.
Remember the government telling us eggs are bad, salt is bad, butter is bad – margarine, vegetable oils and low fat diets are good? Well that junk “science” sky rocketed heart disease and obesity.
There are a few doctors and scientists speaking out and trying to right this wrong thrust upon our society. If a weight loss diet isn’t working, try a low carb diet instead of a low fat diet. Eat meat like our bodies require and get the nutrients that you cannot get from other foods. High quality protein, B12, omega3s and more.
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Low Carb Diets Work
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Low Carb Diet Lets You
Eat Fat to Lose Fat
One of the doctors advice I follow bucks the “traditional” weight loss advice provided by most MDs. He promotes a low carb diet as apposed to most mainstream doctors that promote low fat and little meat. Humans were designed to eat meat (and fat). Grains, breads, sugar(s) are the bad carbohydrates that cause insulin spikes and eventual insulin resistance (diabetes) and weight gain.
If appetite is your problem, he has developed an amazing
appetite suppressant / metabolism boosting fat burner – NATIVE SLIM.
Following is one of his email bulletins that explain his weight loss knowledge.
His name is Dr Al Sears.
From “Doctor’s House Call”:
I was reading The New York Times recently and came across an article, “Calories Do Count.”1 Doctors, public health officials, restaurant chain executives… are all jumping on the bandwagon about how much calories matter.
“Good old calorie counting is coming back into fashion,” the reporter wrote.
When it comes to your health, forget the fashion.
Your body treats calories differently depending on the source. A carbohydrate calorie is not the same as a protein calorie is not the same as a fat calorie. Your body “counts” them in completely different ways.
These three “macronutrients” provoke varying biological responses, some of them good, some not so good, depending on a number of factors.
You probably already know that carbohydrates kick your body’s insulin factory into gear.
Insulin is a complicated little hormone with surprisingly powerful effects. It’s your body’s central metabolic control. When you eat a slice of bread, insulin tells your liver, muscle, and fat cells to start absorbing the carbs from that bread as glucose—the form of sugar the body turns all carbs into—and to stop using fat as an energy source.
So some of the sugar gets used for energy… and the rest gets stored as fat. That fat might get used later. Or it might just sit there and make you fatter.
Calories that come from protein, on the other hand, play an entirely different role. The most important thing you need to bear in mind about them is that they’re “essential” forms of fuel for energy. Unlike energy from carbs—and most types of fat—your body can’t make them on its own.
So when you eat protein—especially a lot of protein—you’re “telling” your body that it doesn’t need to worry. It’s going to get plenty of the most essential form of energy it needs for living.
Guess what that does? It turns your body’s metabolic dial to “Fat Burn” mode. So not only does your body start running on protein-source calories… it also starts getting rid of fat stores, since they’re less efficient and more of a drag on your body, both physically (in terms of weight) and physiologically (in terms of health effects).
A recent study on the relationship between macronutrients and diet concluded, “Low carbohydrate diets result in more weight loss than low-fat/low-calorie diets after 6 months, with no adverse impact on lipids, bone density, or blood pressure.”2
In the end, all calories are not the same. Steer clear of carbs. Stick to proteins.
To Your Good Health,
Al Sears MD
1. Severson, K. “Calories Do Count.” The New York Times. Oct. 28, 2008.
2. McCarter, D. “Low-carbohydrate diet effective for adults.” The Journal of Family Practice. 2003. 52(7):515.
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Weight Loss Prevented by Iodine Deficiency?
Posted by: | CommentsAn iodine deficiency will affect your ability to lose weight and cause you to gain weight. Iodine or iodide are the main precursors required for your thyroid gland to produce thyroid hormones which regulate your metabolism and other hormone systems of the body. The 2 main thyroid hormones are: triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4). T3 and T4 regulate the rate your body burns calories for energy. Hypothyroidism (slow metabolism) can be a result of iodine deficiency. If you are trying to lose pounds, especially trying to lose fat, an iodine deficiency is something to check out.
A person’s metabolism is the mechanism that maintains, allows weight loss or weight gain for the long term. A high metabolism will burn more calories even when at rest. A low metabolism will burn less calories making it easy to gain weight. Generally a person’s metabolism will achieve a “set point” and maintain the weight you are currently at. With any luck, you are at your ideal weight and your set point is allowing you to maintain that weight. As we age, our metabolism gradually slows down. If your caloric intake does not go down along with your metabolism, you will gain weight.
Iodine is deficient in the SAD diet (standard American Diet). Iodine has been depleted from our soils and therefore our foods. An attempt was made to supplement the American diet by iodizing salt. Then the same folks that recommended iodine be added to our diets for thyroid health, came up with the bright idea we should cut down on salt use. Natural sea salt and other natural salts are good for you and contain iodine and 71 other minerals. Table salt (sodium chloride) in this country is highly refined natural salt stripped of everything healthy and no longer resembles healthy salt. This form of “salt” is bad for you and should be avoided (even if it is iodized). Stick with sea salt or crystal salt for your salt needs.
Supplementation of iodine (as in supplementation of all nutrients) should be from a natural source, in a natural form. Sea kelp has an ideal form of iodine for absorbtion. As with any supplementation, you must “listen” to your body. If you notice any changes in your health for the worse, discontinue use of the supplement. An opposite condition of hypothyroidism is hyperthyroidism (an over active thyroid) and iodine supplementation would not be advisable. A blood test is the only for sure way to determine your thyroid hormone levels. If you are concerned, see a doctor (preferably a naturopathic doctor).
Iodine is just one factor that can affect your metabolism. Generally you need to supply your body with all the nutrients it requires to operate efficiently. If a weight loss diet is in your plans, eat healthy, avoid nutitionally deficient foods and get some exercise.
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