Obesity is one of the most serious health problems in the US. Most people do not eat a healthy diet or get anywhere near the amount of exercise they need to maintain a healthy weight.
The explosion in the rates of obesity in the US has largely coincided with the increase in the use of chemicals in industrial processes (including food production). Many of these chemicals have harmful side effects including outright toxicity and some even lead to weight gain!
New potentially harmful chemicals are introduced all the time; joining the already staggering number of hazardous substances in our environment. There are so many different toxic substances that research has been begun in order to establish a baseline of toxicity in the US; it's an alarming state of affairs, to say the least.
Many of these toxic substances have been linked to certain cancers, impaired immune function, heart disease and many other harmful effects. With more toxins coming into the environment all the time, it's only natural to be a little worried.
Your liver can become overwhelmed by all of these toxins; when this happens, it is unable to efficiently carry out its important function of burning off fat to produce energy. A tired, toxin overloaded liver is one of the most common things which can prevent weight loss. A tired liver leads to a slower metabolism, meaning it’s harder to lose weight and energy levels may drop to the point where it's hard to exercise!
When you're tired and your body is not burning fat efficiently, weight loss is difficult and weight gain very easy; and when your liver does burn fat, it releases toxins stored in fat cells into the system. It can be a vicious cycle which makes it ever harder to lose excess weight.
As more toxins are released from fat cells and taken in through your environment, it gets harder and harder to exercise and harder and harder to lose weight as your body struggles under the load of toxins which it needs to eliminate. The end result is fatigue and as often as not, obesity. To break this cycle and start losing weight, the first step is to use natural detoxification methods which can cleanse your body and let you start losing weight naturally.
