Frankenfood and Body Fat

There are everday condiments in your kitchen that mess with natures balance of hormones in your body causing you to develop fat. Thanks to Josh Bezoni - here's the list.

It’s important for you to know right now that some food additives are making you fat in three different ways:

1. Two of these obesity additives interfere with a hormone called leptin that tells the brain we are full while eating.
2. Other obesity additives add fat by changing how our bodies use the calories we eat. They do this by increasing a fat-storing hormone called insulin. When this happens, calories are converted to fat instead of being stored as “muscle energy.” This leads to fat deposits in all of our trouble areas—like under the chin, the backs of the arms, the belly, and the lower body.
3. Still other obesity additives actually make us addicted to them and cause us to eat uncontrollably. They do this by altering brain chemicals called neurotransmitters—just like a highly addictive drug does.

Therefore, here are the top 7 additives that I recommend removing from your diet as much as you can:

1. Stripped Carbohydrates (listed as sugar, flour, enriched white flour, white flour, enriched bleached flour, enriched wheat flour, wheat flour, semolina flour, white rice, maltodextrin, glucose, high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), fructose, sucrose, dextrose, and levulose)
2. Artificial Sweeteners (listed as NutraSweet (aspartame), Sunette (acesulfame K), and Sweet ‘N Low (saccharin)
3. Added Caffeine in soft drinks and energy drinks (a few cups of green tea or coffee each day are fine)
4. Trans Fats (also listed as partially hydrogenated oils)
5. MSG (also labeled as monosodium glutamate)
6. Excess Alcohol (if you must, one to two drinks per week)
7. Excess Salt/Sodium in chips, crackers, canned food items, pickles, various cheeses, pretzels, condiments, and salted nuts.