eliminate chemical calories chemicals make you fat

CHEMICALS MAKE YOU FAT 

– THE MEDICAL EVIDENCE 

What is the cause of obesity? 

Why do current estimates suggest 

that women are gaining weight 

to the tune of 450g and men 225g 

each year despite the many diets they undertake? 

Could it be true that the chemicals 

in our food, skin care and detergents 

make us fat? 

The foundation for most diets today 

is based on the work of Drs Johnston and Newsborough 

of Michigan University who, 

during the 1930s, 

developed the theory that 

if a person consumes fewer calories than the body needs, t

he body will burn up its fat stores. 

In her groundbreaking book, 

The Detox Diet 

- Eliminate Chemical Calories 

and Enhance Your Natural Slimming System, 

Dr Paula Baillie Hamilton tackles 

what she believes is the root cause of weight gain. 

Our own natural weight control system is being poisoned 

by the toxic chemicals that we encounter in our everyday lives 

– this damage makes it increasingly difficult 

for our bodies to control their own weight, 

so we end up getting fatter 

even if we eat less food. 

This detox diet approach tells us 

how to avoid the most “fattening” chemicals, 

or “chemical calories” 

in our food and around our home. 

It explains 

how we can shed our body’s load of chemical calories safely, 

and rebuild our natural slimming system. 

Synthetic chemicals damage our health in two ways. 

First, 

by acute “poisoning”

 through exposure to large quantities, 

which induce almost immediate and 

often violent reactions that 

account for a staggering 220,000 fatalities 

worldwide every year. 

The second, 

more subtle way is 

by long-term exposure 

to much lower levels. 

This is what Dr Baillie-Hamilton explores in her book. 

“The Detox Diet” links the current fat epidemic 

to the toxic synthetic chemicals 

used in agriculture, skin care, cosmetics and household products. 

Toxic synthetic chemicals are highly fat soluble and 

when we are exposed to them 

the body creates fat to safely store those toxins

it cannot process and eliminate safely. 

Carbamates, 

a group of insecticides and herbicides 

used in the growing of food, cosmetic 

and medicinal ingredients, 

are also used as growth promoters

in battery-farm  situations 

because they slow down the metabolic rate. 

So, 

the same synthetic chemicals 

used on our fruit and vegetables 

are used to fatten livestock! 

Carbamates are also used in medicine 

to promote weight gain in humans. 

People are not overweight simply 

through their own lack of effort, such as exercise. 

The truth is that the finger of blame 

must also be pointed at toxic chemicals. 

It is known that toxic chemicals, 

even when present in very small amounts, 

directly damage muscles and disrupt the hormones 

that control their growth. 

Catecholamines, 

a valuable group of slimming hormones, 

also seem to come under frequent attack 

by these chemicals, 

which interferes with the metabolic process 

and inhibits our body’s own natural slimming systems. 

Dr Baillie-Hamilton recommends 

the replacement of our food, skin care, cosmetics and 

household products that contain toxic synthetic chemicals 

with organic products, 

combined with effective detoxification. 

In addition, her research suggests 

that the highest levels of “slimming nutrients” 

are found in organically grown produce.