Easy Tips to Keep FAT OFF
• Find ways to manage your stress on all levels (physical, psychological, nutritional, geothermal, environmental). Stress is unavoidable, but too much is literally a killer.
• Eat the highest quality food coming from a repu- table source that values plant and animal life force and not just profit.
• Eat local and organic foods; they will typically have fewer toxins in them. Toxins store in fat cells so the less you ingest the less fat you will need. Foods that are local, travel less and are more nutri- ent dense with more bioavailability.
• Drink quality water (preferably not from plastic).
• Last but certainly not least-BREATH. Oxygen is the number one, most important nutrient your body will ever need. It can live weeks without food, days without water, but only minutes without oxygen. All biological function on earth and in our bodies begins, ends, and depends on oxygen. Take time to breath deeply and live well all day everyday.
a chronic, sustained state of high-level psychological stress. This would affect the person’s bio-nutrient levels because we now know that these forces cause the body to release the same chemical irritants as physical/nutritional stress. These irritants create a much higher demand for all macro and micro nutrients, on all cellular levels. This would precipitate a greater need for minerals and trace minerals like zinc, phosphorus, and calcium and vitamins A and D that protect our body and help it deal with stressors. If the same dietary guidelines were given to the individual with the greater amount
of psychological stress, that person would become nutritionally deficient over time due to the greater amount of bio-nutrients needed to manage their body’s current mental/emotional state. This is different from the nutrients needed by their body to recover and repair from exercise-induced stress. This scenario is not uncommon with today’s lifestyles. The accumulation of fat is the
body’s way of protecting itself from a perceived threat, either physical or mental. Since physical threats typically last seconds or minutes and psychological ones can last as long as the mind allows, its easy to see that someone who has chronic psychological stress will release biochemical irritants, that over time will accumulate and create susceptibility to injury and disease. It also creates a state of poor recovery; actually turning any form of good stress (exercise) into a negative effect within the body. This cycle is what leads many to “chase their tail” doing more and more exercise and getting poor results. Learning how to deal with mental/emotional stress is a highly under- rated attribute but vital for a healthy lifestyle.
Martin Alonzo owns a private training studio called Performance Training Center on Fourth Avenue in San Diego. He is a CHEK Institute-trained professional and can be contacted via the web at
performcenter.com or direct at 619.206.4577.
APRIL 2011 | RAGE monthly 59
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