Why You're Fat

This is today's question that everyone is dying to know. The statistics of obese people are reaching ground breaking records and need to seriously be looked at as a society. Being obese is a disease but there are many people still overweight, are constantly suffering from allergies, have cellulite, and are always sick with something!All of these issues have nothing to do with your environment, your genetics, or any other excuse you'd like to point your finger to; it is because your body is overly acidic! Acidic means the PH of your blood not having "heartburn." Your bodily fluid is measured on a PH level of 1-14, with below 7 being acidic to above being alkaline. The healthy state is anywhere between 7.35-7.45 is optimal. This may be getting into too much detail so let me just keep it in plain simple terms and explain the reason people are overweight. The issue at hand is that you are consuming too many foods that are acidic to your body and making you overweight.
The S.A.D diet which is the Standard American Diet is very acidic to the body. Foods that the standard North American consumes are cereals, breads, fruit cups, sugary snacks, deli meats, and steaks. These are foods that will bring your body's PH to a more acidic level also causing weight gain, allergies, cellulite, and a weak immune system.
When looking on the flip side, whole foods like fruits, veggies, and legumes are much more alkalizing to the body. These foods purify and help the body stay energized and maintain in a healthy state. The importance of consuming foods that are alkaline will improve weight issues along with any other issues drastically.
Now to be in a healthy state, you do not want to just eat foods that are alkalizing but some that may be acidic to keep you in perfect balance. In my nutrition books and in school, they state to bring yourself to health by eating 80% alkaline foods like greens, fruits, and seeds should be consumed; and 20% acid forming foods like grains and legumes and meat for the meat eaters. When eating majority of the week this way it gives you time to consume your favorite foods later on in the weekend and able to bring your body back in to balance after you have consumed highly acidic foods. Once you can learn to control this everything else will start to fix itself and whenever you need guidance seek an expert holistic nutritionist to naturally guide you to the best state of health that you can be!
To your perfect balance,
Jennifer Colalillo

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Sex: A Mountain to Climb When You're Overweight

Sexual intercourse is an energetic occupation, whether it's a vigorous romp in the hay or a refined coupling in the missionary position. Metabolic studies show that on average it uses up about 200 calories, which makes it as physically demanding as a thirty minute stint of jogging. This makes it an excellent way to keeping in shape. Some years ago a reporter asked the film star Ursula Andress how she managed to maintain her sylph-like figure, to which the Swiss sex symbol replied: 'Loving keeps me slim.' That's one of the unfortunate side effects of carrying excess weight, that it often acts as a barrier to sexual intercourse. For corpulent people, the spirit is often willing while the flesh is weak. This same problem is suffered by other animal species, according to the managers of a zoo in eastern China, who had to put their caged tigers, leopards and lions on a strict get-fit routine when they found they were showing a 'lowering ability to breed as a result of obesity.'Researchers at the John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore have found the same tendency in humans. They carried out interviews, and pre-medical examinations, on a small group of obese men and women who were about to undergo an intestinal bypass. The patients - thirteen men and ten women - were questioned about their sex lives, body image, libidinal drives and sexual functioning. The results revealed that there was little or no decline in their sexual appetite. The women had no trouble getting an orgasm, and the men's sexual drive and performance remained unchanged, apart from two who declared that they had occasional potency problems. But what plagued the entire group was the sheer mechanical difficulties they faced. Because of their bulk, they found it difficult to find a position in which they could enjoy easy sexual union. As several explained, their paunches 'got in the way'. Lack of stamina and shortness of breath were other frequent problem. The major finding, however, was that however amorous they felt they were all reluctant to take of their clothes and reveal their unsightly bodies All 23 were recorded as having 'markedly negative feelings' about their body and admitted that they were ashamed of their appearance.
The remedy is clear. Everyone ought to be able to enjoy an active sex life. If obesity makes this difficult, enough surplus fat should be shed to permit comfortable coupling. This should be done by making gradual life style changes, rather than by crash dieting. The body's fat tissues provide a store for sex hormones, which is why a general reduction in adipose tissue frequently leads to a decline in sexual function. This explains why anorexic girls, and sometimes excessively skinny ballerinas, tend to suffer a fall in oestrogen levels, missed periods and reduced fertility. With regard to sexual performance, it's undoubtedly better for a woman to be overweight than underweight. This was shown by researchers at the Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, who tested a group of women using scales which measured their sexual readiness and erotic excitability. Using these yardsticks they found that mildly overweight women outscored their skinny counterparts by a factor of almost two to one. So don't try to soup up your sex life by crash dieting, one trial having shown that women often stop masturbating and having sexual fantasies when they reduce their energy intake to 1,700 calories a day - which is 500 more than that provided by the Beverly Hills Diet.

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