What The Doctors Aren't Telling You About Your Health - Obesity

By Author: Hal Clarkson
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The doctors and the cardiologists that I was referred to during my experience could not correlate my chest pains to heart disease.

They did give it a label though (as they like to) they called it Ischemic heart condition which in essence means a partial arterial blockage. But then I would think 85% of the country's population is currently experiencing the same condition.

After six months the medical profession needed 'closure'. They were all agreed I should continue with the ‘insurance'. In doctor speak that meant ‘keep on taking your current cocktail of drugs'. My decision to break with the establishment and take responsibility for my own health was a difficult one-but I did it and two and a half years later I am thankful.

My research into all aspects of health and well being intensified and I discovered a number of profound truths about our human body. How it functions, what it needs, what goes wrong and in many cases why. But more importantly the kind of environment it needs to ‘heal itself'.

Today I am going to focus on one of the most important factors in the development ...
... of heart disease; it is obesity. It is a key factor that I cannot stress enough.

Excess fat increases the strain on the heart and contributes to high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol. Fatty deposits stick to artery walls, they solidify and become plaque. Over time the artery continues to narrow and become choked or a piece of plaque breaks away and gets trapped in the heart-HEART ATTACK!

So you need to lose weight but how much? And how should you go about losing it? Let me point out a couple of things. Don't focus on WEIGHT focus on FAT. Comparing yourself against another person's weight is the wrong kind of focus. The only way to tell if you are overweight or fat is to determine YOUR ideal BODY MASS.

Just let me say that you should never try to lose weight to the point of getting rid of all your excess fat. Your body needs some fat in order to survive and if you try to eliminate all fat your liver will produce fat as it needs a place to store impurities until it can get rid of them through your blood.

So don't go over the top in losing all your fat-that's the first little secret.

You should have also realized by now just what fat is and how the body uses fat. Yes that's right. It's the body's storage system for toxins and impurities. So if you are considerably overweight just think about the additional baggage of toxins and poisons you are carry around with you daily! Do you really want to hang on to all that poison? That's the second little secret.

There is a very simple but very useful indicator that you can use to determine whether or not you are at risk of heart disease from being over fat. Quite simply it's your waist measurement. If you are a man and your waist measurement is above 40 inches or a woman above 35 inches your tummy fat is telling you are probably in the high risk category for heart disease. You need to lose weight!

In my next letter I'll teach you the secrets of ‘Transitioning' a process that will help you to change your diet effectively and permanently. Until then be well!