Weight Loss Controversy Series

Submitted by support on Tue, 04/24/2012 - 03:21

WEIGHT LOSS – one of most abused marketing promos in the past 50 years.

Most everyone has now heard that counting calories is not the way to loose weight – that it is a change in lifestyle – learning to eat effectively and healthy…but do you know what the mechanisms of weight loss are?

This series is divided into several articles: each article will deal with another piece of the puzzle.

The following are few of the main current theories behind weight loss:

1) detox the GIT and the liver: allows more effective absorption of nutrient and elimination of toxins

2) regulate and/or strengthen the thyroid and the adrenals: perhaps the two most important organs involved in weight metabolism

3) improve muscle metabolism: burns more calories and more effectively

4) regulate leptin and grehlin: the two most important hormones involved in weight metabolism : most weight loss programs deplete or inhibit your grehlin – the hormone that induces a sense of hunger – but decreasing this hormone throws off a variety of other things…

5) and we haven’t even addressed all the theories behind exercise and weight loss but we will do that with another article

There are so many weight loss programs and MLM programs out there for weight loss – it is difficult to keep up with them. Some of them utilize one or more of the above theories behind weight loss and some utilize none at all.

Yet, you could probably loose weight on any of them whether they are well backed by science of not!! Why? Well if you suddenly started drinking protein shakes for breakfast (great way to get your metabolism going – even if the formula is a lousy one) and you eliminated the fast foods, the junk foods, and the processed foods, the microwaved foods, etc …took in some vitamins and minerals…you will probably loose weight – isn’t that what a diet is?? MLMs then typically want you to keep your program going at some level – after all, that is how they keep your money coming in.

So we will address the two important questions you need to ask yourself, in the next article…

Each subsequent article will deal with one of the issues above and provide some product possibilities for you....

For more information, contact: Dr Holly at holly@choicesunlimited.ca

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