The Link Between Processed Foods And Weight Gain Is The Liver

Enemy Number One of the overweight or obese individual is processed foods including fast food, ironically billed as saviors of the 21st century. Breakfast cereals, energy bars, TV dinners, hamburgers, chili dogs, pasta, puddings and baked chicken. You pick them off the shelves, peel off the wrapper, eat most of them on the move or put them in the microwave.

They are time-savers, they are delicious and, why, they are even ‘nutritionally enriched’. At least, that’s what the label says.

If you can get ‘all you need for a healthy start to your day’ in a bowl of breakfast cereal, you couldn’t ask for more, right? Not so fast. Falling prey to smart advertising spiel and convincing product packaging are more than 75 percent of Americans, whose breakfast consists of bright and colorful cereals.

Hiding behind labels such as ‘whole grain’, ‘high-fiber’ and ‘nutritionally enriched’ are a bag of chemicals – present in all processed foods – dumping chemical toxins into your body.

Starting with your liver, kidneys, small intestine, large intestine or colon and connective tissue, these chemicals – artificial coloring agents, preservatives, food flavoring agents, refined sugars, refined grains, trans fatty acids and even fiber from bran – breakfast cereal could be escalating weight gain and taking your body to a toxicity crisis.

This is easily understood when we take a look at how the body deals with any type of toxin that enters the digestive system. The link between processed foods and weight gain is the liver.

This organ is tasked with more than 500 different functions, two of which are detoxification and burning fat. Apart from neutralizing and rendering toxins harmless, the liver passes on some of the toxins to the colon for elimination. It stores the rest to prevent them from entering the bloodstream.

So the more unnatural chemicals you consume in processed foods, fast food and junk food, the greater the need for detoxification. Your liver is now burdened with this role and is left with little time or energy to burn fat or carry out its other responsibilities.

According to some estimates, three quarters of the average individual’s liver is used to store toxins that the liver was unable to render harmless.

When the liver can store no more poison, these chemicals begin to back up into the bloodstream, which sets off another series of harmful reactions in other organs and tissues including the brain.

Apart from promoting weight gain, these additives and preservatives then lead to diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease, asthma and neurological disorders.

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This is an excerpt from my book FEEL GREAT, LOSE WEIGHT