Effortless, Healthful Weight Loss with Naturopathy
pens that makes it hard to stay with your program of diet and exercise? Does it get harder still to lose additional weight, and effortless to regain the weight lost initially? Why is it so hard to reach weight loss goals? Lack of will power? Starving fat cells crying out for calories? Is there any easy, natural way to reach and maintain a healthy weight? The truth is that many people encounter these difficulties. But once other aspects of health are dealt with— those that are more important than weight—it is possible to lose weight almost easily and maintain that weight comfortably. A recent case illustrates how weight loss can be a con-
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sequence of dealing with the health issues that occur along with obesity. “June” she was about 90 pounds overweight and suffered from what her physician considered dangerously elevated thyroid function, high blood pressure, alarmingly high cholesterol, joint pain, a skin disorder, numbness in her fingers, and dizziness that had forced her to give up driving. In three months of naturopathic treatment she has improved dramati- cally. Treatment was focused not on the obesity that could easily be viewed as the source of most of her symptoms, but on all her other issues. After the first two weeks, her vertigo was gone and she could drive again. June is now delighted that her physi- cian has given her a clean bill of health. Her blood pressure, cholesterol, and thyroid function are normal, and most of her other symptoms have improved. She actually lost eight pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, which was probably the
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as it been your experience that when you set out to lose more than a few pounds, you enjoy success at first, but after your initial weight loss, something hap-
consequence of her other health gains. Now that June feels so much better, she is optimistic and feels empowered to continue losing weight she once felt helpless to control. The apparent limits on your ability to shed unwanted
pounds may stem from several underlying disorders. Nutritional deficiencies may contribute to weight gain. Hormonal imbal- ances can depress metabolism to the extent that progressive weight gain occurs even with low calorie diets. Toxins stored in fat cells (That’s where your body puts toxins it can’t elimi- nate) are released when those cells release their fat. If you still can’t get them out of your system, they rob you of energy and cause physical symptoms ranging from headaches to nausea to generalized pain that only go away when you eat. In some cases, a systemic burden of metallic toxins and
pathogens complicates this picture even further. Mercury, for example, puts a double whammy on your health. On one hand, mercury debilitates the body’s defenses. On the other, it is an an- tibiotic and anti-fungal, so it holds pathogens in check. Remove the mercury without first strengthening the immune system and the body may be overrun by these pathogens, especially yeast and fungus. In an effort to isolate the poison, which is difficult to eliminate without therapeutic intervention, the body uses its fat as a toxic waste dump. When the existing storage space is filled to capacity, your body can make more fat for storage of the poisons you ingest, inhale and absorb, without you changing your caloric intake. You might suddenly, mysteriously start gain- ing weight. Even with increasing attention to diet and exercise, a person like this may be doomed to gradual weight gain. This is a protective mechanism. If a person like this does lose more
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