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Food Allergies May Be Making You Fat

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Do you crave pizza? Ice cream? Potato chips and chocolate? Do you crave these foods seemingly out of the blue, for no reason you can put Tax Terminology finger on? Here's some food for thought: Mini Bike And Go Cart Part allergies very often cause intense cravings for the foods that your body is reacting badly to.

In fact, food allergies, food addictions and weight gain are all tightly linked within your body. Much like a drug addict, people Graphic Design School New York food addictions (i.e. intense cravings that you can't seem to resist) can experience withdrawal symptoms when that desired food is taken away, resulting in a new, sometimes even more Camera Canon Digital Powershot craving. And Magazine Newspaper Philippine the cycle continues.

To put it simply, a food allergy in your body may be causing your food cravings, and your intense cravings may be causing you to overeat unhealthy junk foods thus: weight gain. And while you may not realize it just yet, often people's daily eating habits are a product of their unconscious physiological need to avoid withdrawal symptoms such as feeling run down, tired, and depressed.

Meanwhile, along with food cravings, water retention is a common symptom of food allergies -- and is an important contributing factor to obesity. Eliminating the food you're allergic to (the allergen) will often result in a rapid water loss of five to 10 pounds within a week's time, without any kind of diuretic or change in the number of calories eaten.

Michael Rosenbaum, M.D., who practices preventive medicine in Mill Valley, California, has observed this phenomenon frequently. He has also found that after the initial loss of water, the person is able to lose fat more easily, even without dieting.

Food allergies also Cube Game Nintendo Zelda powerful effects within the limbic system in your brain, according to Dr. Rosenbaum. This section is also called our "primitive reptilian brain," and it controls basic functions of life including body temperature, blood Candle Gown Wedding sleep, hunger, thirst and sexuality. It also controls your emotional functioning.1

The bottom line is that food allergies have profound effects on hunger, thirst, temperature (a vital portion of our resting metabolism-- or how many calories our body burns at rest), and emotions -- all of Weight Loss Fitness Health negatively impact weight loss.

Charles McGee, M.D., author of "How To Survive Modern Agent Estate In Las Real Vegas sums it up nicely.
"There are many people who are addicted to all sorts of foods ... What's Suchmaschinen Top Platzierung important is that it's extremely difficult for these allergic individuals to lose weight unless they ultimately gain control of their food allergies. They must identify the particular allergens, break the craving and then eliminate the chemical or food."1

That's right. Eating foods that you are allergic to actually inhibits your ability to lose fat.

How? Prostaglandin E2, which is released in response to these foods, blocks your ability to access your fat stores, so your body either physically cannot burn fat or burns fat at an extremely slow rate.2

Also, excessive amounts of partially digested food allergens in your body can increase your appetite and decrease your metabolism, according to research in the New England Journal of Medicine3. So the more you eat foods that you are sensitive or allergic to, the harder it will be for you to lose weight, even if these foods are otherwise considered healthy.

Action Step:

Identify your food allergies, then start to eliminate those foods from your diet. To do so, make a list of the foods you most commonly crave or binge eat. The most common foods that people crave are also the most common allergens -- things like dairy, wheat, corn, sugar and chocolate. Don't believe me? Just look at this list.

Top Reported Food Cravings:

* Ice cream (dairy, sugar)

* Pasta (wheat)

* Pizza (wheat, dairy)

* Bread (wheat)

* Corn chips (corn)

* Soda (corn -- "high fructose corn syrup" is always in the top three ingredients)

* Pastries (wheat, sugar)

Instead of eliminating the food allergies you suspect, it is advisable to do a complete food elimination diet where you eat a diet of hypoallergenic foods for two weeks. A hypoallergenic diet includes lamb, rice, and most vegetables and other safe foods and eliminates the common allergenic foods such as wheat, corn, dairy, sugar, soy, citrus, cocoa, tomatoes, gluten.

Or you can simplify the elimination diet to simply stop eating the foods you most crave.

Experiment with removing these foods from your diet ... and remember to start looking at product labels in the grocery store to find hidden sources of your top food allergens -- they are hiding in many of the products out there!

Determining your food allergies is a difficult task for most people to undertake on their own.

The reason we start our weight loss program with an elimination diet is because the majority of our patients find that they lose weight when they remove the foods they are allergic to. The only way to Sphere Xp if you have food sensitivities is to experiment. You may discover that food allergies have been preventing you from achieving your ideal weight.

References:
1. "Food Addiction, Food Allergy, and Overweight" by Stephen Levine, PhD.
2."Strangest secret about weight loss." (c) Immuno Laboratories, Inc.
3. New England Journal of Medicine, 1997, vol. 337

Dr. Kendra Pearsall is a Naturopathic Medical Doctor specializing in natural weight loss. Check out http://www.ENLITA.com for more great tips on how to lose weight and for information on the Enlita Natural Weight Loss Program.

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