Physical activity increases hunger and food intake, leading to increased fat accumulation. People also increase stored fat when they eat foods with high fructose corn syrup, soy, and other “obesogens.”

Stephen Perrine and Heather Hurlock, authors of The New American Diet: How Secret ‘Obesogens’ Make Us Fat, say that people are often unable to lose weight due to chemical toxins in the body. Therefore, despite a healthy, low-calorie diet, exposure to toxins can lead to excess body fat. Whether the toxins are chemical (e.g. chlorine) or natural (e.g. harmful bacteria), the book says they disrupt normal biochemical processes that promote 1) burning of fat, 2) reducing appetite, and 3) fewer smaller fat cells.

Unfortunately, many Americans attribute weight gain to eating too many calories and exercising too little. However, scientists are discovering that man-made chemicals, as well as some natural ones (for example, soy), disrupt the endocrine system, leading to biochemical processes that increase the number of fat cells (even in adults) and decrease the body’s ability to burn fat. and increase appetite.

Mr. Perrine and Ms. Hurlock wrote that estrogens are found everywhere, particularly since obesogen, high fructose corn syrup, is found in most processed foods. Fructose (even when obtained through fruit) can cause metabolic disorders that damage the liver and disrupt the normal functioning of levels of the appetite-suppressing hormone leptin.

The contribution of natural and chemical toxins to America’s growing obesity epidemic has been largely ignored by the weight loss industry. Instead, exercising industry claims is important for the removal of excess body fat. In fact, inactivity reduces your appetite, which leads to less stored fat. According to Good Calories, Bad Calories, a book by science journalist Gary Taubes, 100 years of scientific studies have shown that exercise has almost no effect on weight. Two recent “exercise” studies described below have come to the same conclusion.

The September 29, 2009 issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine published a study showing that weeks of strenuous exercise led participants to lose only about 3.5 pounds, while the average weight loss was just a little over seven. pounds. The study involved 58 obese people who completed 12 weeks of supervised aerobic training without changing their diets.

An exercise weight loss study conducted by the University of Colorado School of Medicine investigated whether study subjects would burn extra calories from fat after exercising, a phenomenon that some athletes (and even more diet and fitness books) called “afterburner”. University researchers found that study subjects did not burn additional body fat on the day they exercised. The study found that inactivity leads to a reduction in food consumption and therefore less stored fat. The study appears in the October 15, 2009 issue of the Journal of Applied Physiology.

Although studies spanning decades show that exercise has little effect on weight in the absence of dietary changes, all studies showed better health benefits, particularly in relation to the heart and mental state. Ironically, researchers from the School of Medicine found that a low-intensity exercise session burns a higher percentage of calories from fat than a high-intensity one.

However, scientific studies have well documented that high intensity exercise demands primarily carbohydrate calories and low intensity exercise causes the body to burn at least some stored fat. This is true because, compared to slowly moving stored fat, carbohydrates can quickly reach the bloodstream to fuel working muscles.

For decades, the medical establishment proposed theories that genetics was one of the main causes of obesity. Most obesity researchers now agree with Dr. Bruce Lipton, a former researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine. In his 2005 book, The Biology of Belief, Dr. Lipton stated: “Something in the environment has to trigger genetic activity. Although that fact had already been established by frontier science, mainstream scientists blinded by the Genetic dogma had simply been ignored. He continued, “… epigenetics, the study of the molecular mechanisms by which the environment controls the activity of genes, is today one of the most active areas of scientific research.”

It is true that studies show that exercise has a positive effect on genes involved in obesity. However, obesity researchers such as Rockefeller University’s Dr. Rudolph Leibel say that there are so many genes (with subtle variations in how they respond to environmental factors) related to obesity that exercise, as a factor, may have little effect on weight. Although exercise has almost no effect on weight loss, scientists know that the body stores chemical toxins in fat cells and this leads to weight gain.

Everyone, especially people with weight problems, should avoid ammonia, bleach, and chlorine, which are some of the most dangerous chemicals found in the home. The body tends to store all toxic chemicals in fat cells. Ammonia and bleach are very harmful to the eyes, skin, and respiratory tract. Chlorine is the number one cause of breast cancer and is found in most commercial brand cleaners, including dishwasher detergents … and, unfortunately, in the drinking water of many Americans. One in nine American women will face breast cancer. Regardless of weight status, people should also avoid the above chemicals, as well as products that contain:

1. formaldehyde (eg air fresheners), a known highly toxic carcinogen;

2. triclosan (eg antibacterial cleansers), linked to liver damage;

3. perchlorethylene (eg, carpets and upholstery), a known carcinogen that damages the liver, kidneys, and nervous system;

4. dry and concentrated chlorine (eg dishwasher detergents and most other products);

5. Petroleum distillates (eg furniture wax), linked to skin and lung cancer;

6. bleach (eg oven cleaners), related to respiratory system problems;

7. Hydrochloric acid (eg, toilet bowel cleaners), a highly corrosive irritant to both skin and eyes that is linked to kidney and liver damage.

8, as well as phosphorus, naphthalene, phenol, sodium nitilotriacetate, and countless other chemicals found in laundry detergent and other consumer products. Residues of these substances left on clothing can cause rashes, itching, allergies, sinus problems, and more.

According to the National Research Council, eighty percent of man-made chemicals in common household products have not been tested for their effects on human health. The Council found that “less than 20 percent have been tested for acute effects and less than 10 percent have been tested for chronic, reproductive or mutagenic effects.” Additionally, most household cleaning agents have not been tested for combined or cumulative effects, or their effects on the fetus.