Chemical Calories; What are they and how to avoid them.

Chemical calories are a way to quantify and grade the many fattening chemicals that are in the foods we eat.  Foods are high in chemical calories if they are exposed to certain pesticides, environmental toxins, and synthetic chemicals.  Most food we eat is sprayed with all kinds of highly toxic pesticides designed to kill insects, fungus, bacteria, and weeds.  After food is harvested, it may be sprayed again to prevent spoilage in storage.  And before it's packaged, it may be treated again.   That's 3 times it is exposed to toxins!  It is estimated that nearly two-thirds of foods we eat have some detectable amount of deliberately added pesticide or chemicals.  In addition to grown food, much of the livestock we eat has been exposed to potentially fattening chemicals - chemicals designed to enhance weight gain in animals or have a weight gain effect as a side effect.  These synthetic chemicals are used by farmers to force weight gain in animals, by altering the animal's metabolism.  We eat this meat and we eat these fattening chemicals along with it!

These chemicals seriously compromise our metabolism.  They can damage the appetite 'switch' so that we eat more food than we need.  They can also reduce the amount of food the body needs, by damaging our ability to burn off food, thereby making the food that we eat go further.  But the most important way these chemicals function is by seemingly preventing the body from burning up existing fat stores. This dooms us to become fatter as long as we keep exposing our bodies to these chemicals.

According to Dr. Baillie-Hamilton, eating organic foods will help detoxify the body by reducing the amount of chemicals you ingest.  By eating organically, you stop the cycle so your body can focus energy on removing those toxins.  Chemicals limit the amount of nutrients being absorbed.

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What can you do?

Go here and see what you can do to detoxify and get rid of the chemical calories.

Mary Beth Potrykus
Mama Bear Productions
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