SYNTHETIC CHEMICALS MAKE YOU FAT - THE MEDICAL EVIDENCE

[megabuff]

ELIMINATE CHEMICAL CALORIES

What is the cause of obesity? Why do current estimates suggest
that women are gaining weight to the tune of 450g and men 225g
each year despite the many diets they undertake? Could it be
true that the synthetic chemicals in our food, skin care and
detergents make us fat?

The foundation for most diets today is based on the work of Drs
Johnston and Newsborough of Michigan University who, during the
1930s, developed the theory that if a person consumes fewer
calories than the body needs, the body will burn up its fat
stores.

In her groundbreaking book, The Detox Diet - Eliminate Chemical
Calories and Enhance Your Natural Slimming System, Dr Paula
Baillie- Hamilton tackles what she believes is the root cause of
weight gain. Our own natural weightcontrol system is being
poisoned by the toxic chemicals that we encounter in our
everyday lives – this damage makes it increasingly difficult for
our bodies to control their own weight, so we end up getting
fatter even if we eat less food. This detox diet approach tells
us how to avoid the most “fattening” chemicals, or “chemical
calories” in our food and around our home. It explains how we
can shed our body’s load of chemical calories safely and rebuild
our natural slimming system.

Synthetic chemicals damage our health in two ways. First, by
acute “poisoning” through exposure to large quantities, which
induce almost immediate and often violent reactions that account
for a staggering 220,000 fatalities worldwide every year. The
second, more subtle way, is by long-term exposure to much lower
levels. This is what Dr Baillie-Hamilton explores in her book.

“The Detox Diet” links the current fat epidemic to the toxic
synthetic chemicals used in agriculture, skin care, cosmetics
and household products. Toxic synthetic chemicals are highly fat
soluble and when we are exposed to them the body creates fat to
safely store those toxins it cannot process and eliminate
safely.

Carbamates, a group of insecticides and herbicides used in the
growing of food, cosmetic and medicinal ingredients, are also
used as growth promoters in battery-farm situations because they
slow down the metabolic rate. So, the same synthetic chemicals
used on our fruit and vegetables are used to fatten livestock!
Carbamates are also used in medicine to promote weight gain in
humans.

People are not overweight simply through their own lack of
effort, such as exercise. The truth is that the finger of blame
must also be pointed at toxic chemicals. It is known that toxic
chemicals, even when present in very small amounts, directly
damage muscles and disrupt the hormones that control their
growth.

Catecholamines, a valuable group of slimming hormones, also seem
to come under frequent attack by these chemicals, which
interferes with the metabolic process and inhibits our body’s
own natural slimming systems.

Dr Baillie-Hamilton recommends the replacement of our food, skin
care, cosmetics and household products that contain toxic
synthetic chemicals, with organic products, combined with
effective detoxification. In addition, her research suggests
that the highest levels of “slimming nutrients” are found in
organically grown produce.

[chefbrian]

Very interesting read, megabuff. This is something I've been puzzling over for some time. I hear the claim on alternate health sites selling detox products that toxins make us fat. But I've never been offered an explanation of the process on how this supposedly occurs.

You do offer some very valuable information, but again your post falls short when you state:

Toxic synthetic chemicals are highly fat soluble and when we are exposed to them the body creates fat to safely store those toxins it cannot process and eliminate safely.

While that sounds plausible, it doesn't explain how this happens. If indeed this is true, does anyone have an explanation of the physiological process under which this occurs?

[megabuff]

hello cheifbran

Good question.

I posted an extract from a book written by Dr Paula Baillie- Hamilton


I will try and dig up some more info on this subject