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Lose Excess Weight | Keep It Off

Obviously we know why people get fat. What is far more difficult to understand is why the average weight of certain societies has recently been escalating at an alarming rate.

Obesity is growing out of control in the United States. In the years from just after the Second World War until 1960 the average person’s weight increased, but very few were obese. In the two and a half decades since 1980 the growth in the rate of obesity has accelerated and continues to escalate into a public health concern.

There are over 200 million Americans who are overweight. Not only adults, but young children are becoming not only overweight, but obese and “morbidly obese“. These children, are not only packing on the pounds, they are showing symptoms of previously defined “Old Age” conditions such as diabetes. All together this accumulated fat adds up to a whopping 5 BILLION pounds of extra accumulated fat, just in the United States alone.

There are a number of theories as to the cause of this change since 1980. Most believe it is a combination of various factors.

Lack of Exercise
Obese people are less active in general than people who are not overweight, and not just because of their obesity. A controlled increase in calorie intake of people who were not overweight, did not make them less active. When obese people lost weight they did not become more active
Researchers in Boston found that those who secreted high insulin levels had a far more difficult time losing weight than those who secreted low levels of insulin
The reason 200 million Americans are overweight is NOT because defective genes cause them to make excessive insulin. Hypersecretion of insulin is an effect — NOT the cause. They are overweight because they have impaired insulin receptor sensitivity.
Most scientists want to attribute the problem to your genes. These Scientists want you to believe that 200 million Americans are overweight because they have defective genes that make them hypersecrete insulin. This kind of thinking lets people off the hook. “Hey, it’s not my fault. I inherited defective genes that caused this obese condition”. What a Crock!
The truth is that Insulin receptors stop working effectively when you don’t exercise. The human body was designed to move and work and do natural exercise. When the receptors are not being used your body automatically makes this adjustment. Ever heard the saying “Use It Or Lose It”? It applies in the case of obesity
The only way your body can adjust, when your insulin receptors become desensitized, is to make MORE insulin. You have now become an insulin hypersecretor.

This Is Why You Always Feel Hungry

When your body starts releasing insulin, your fat-burning hormone called hormone-sensitive lipase immediately becomes inhibited. This hormone is responsible for releasing fat into your bloodstream to be utilized as fuel. Once lipase is inhibited, you are no longer able to burn fat and will begin utilizing amino acids from your muscles and carbohydrates from junk food as fuel. Excess fat in your body will NOT be burned as fuel and will remain glued to your tissues and organs unless you start exercising.

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