| Although most people logically acknowledge that | | | | can be in several forms such as sugar, sucrose, corn |
| chemicals in food are bad for them they do not really | | | | syrup etc but the bottom line is that all are highly |
| understand the full implications especially its direct | | | | detrimental to your health and achieving the body you |
| connections to the metabolism and storage of excess | | | | deserve. This section is quite detailed but it's important |
| body fat. | | | | that you know the TRUTH about how white sugar |
| Firstly, the more chemicals that a person consumes | | | | just totally destroys your ability to get lean and |
| from their food, the harder the liver must work to | | | | muscular and with this knowledge 'eating clean' |
| metabolize and flush out all of the toxins from the | | | | becomes a powerfully sane choice. |
| body. What does this have to do with fat loss? The | | | | The following information comes from 'Sugar Blues' by |
| liver is the body's number one fat burning organ and its | | | | William Duffy. Why is sugar toxic to the body? In 1957 |
| health and function is closely related to how lean your | | | | Dr William Coda Martin tried to answer the question: |
| physique will be. The more time it spends processing | | | | When is a food a food and when is it a poison? His |
| chemicals (including alcohol), the LESS it has to | | | | working definition of "poison" was: "Medically: Any |
| properly regulate your metabolism, burn fat and keep | | | | substance applied to the body, ingested or developed |
| you looking lean and toned. | | | | within the body, which causes or may cause disease. |
| Here's some statistics to clearly put you in the picture: | | | | Dr Martin classified refined sugar as a POISON |
| The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) currently | | | | because it has been depleted of its life forces, vitamins |
| lists about 2800 international food additives and about | | | | and minerals. |
| 3000 chemicals added deliberately to the food supply. | | | | This is why the KEY principle above all else in your |
| Including chemicals used in food production from | | | | eating plan will be to eat only natural, unprocessed (and |
| ground to stomach, the number rises to between | | | | organic whenever possible) foods. Reducing the |
| 10,000 and 15,000. | | | | chemical build-up and intake will get your liver burning |
| William Kellas and Andrea Dworkin -Surviving in a toxic | | | | fat and speed up your metabolism so you are a better |
| world There are currently over 100,000 chemicals | | | | fat burning machine 24/7. |
| approved for use in Europe alone with over 8000 | | | | Obviously with the amounts of chemicals most people |
| more added each year. | | | | typically consume from the foods they generally eat, |
| The Danish Environmental Authority entered all that | | | | the liver cannot process them all so they become |
| was known about 40,000 chemicals into a database | | | | stored in the body until they can be processed. If the |
| and concluded: | | | | chemical barrage would stop these 'chemical |
| Â- 20,624 to be dangerous, of this number 9,538 | | | | stockpiles' would get around to being processed but |
| acutely dangerous when consumed. | | | | unfortunately since there are more chemicals taken in |
| Â- A further 9,668 incur allergic reactions. | | | | every day, the stockpiles get larger and larger. Also |
| Â- 1678 are mutagenic. | | | | many of these chemicals cause an acidity in the body |
| Â- 642 incur cancer. | | | | that needs to be neutralized lest it literally burn and |
| Another massive problem with processed foods is | | | | damage cells and tissue including your hard earned |
| that almost all of them contain refined white sugar. This | | | | muscle that you spend hours in the gym developing. |