Sugar is everywhere, lurking in sodas, cookies, and even seemingly innocent products like salad dressings and ketchup. The American Heart Association recommends 6-9 teaspoons sugar per day, yet one 12 oz soda contains 8 teaspoons! Refined sugars create monsters of their own including depressed immune systems, yeast infections, joint deterioration and depression. Do you crave sweets or carbs? This is a sure warning sign you've encountered the sugar monster!
Trans fats! Simple sugars! Empty Carbs! Oh my! We're scared already just thinking about it! Did you know fast food chains bank on the addictive properties of their foods? Typical fast food sugars and fats produce dopamine in the brain, causing a sensation of happiness and contentment, but watch out! New Scientist Magazine states "fats and simple sugars can act on the brain in the same way as nicotine and heroin". This monster of fast food addiction is growing every year, destroying family meal time and causing obesity in our vulnerable children. Do you have the fast food monster on your back?! We can help! After only a short time off these foods your body will re-develop a taste for pure, healthy foods.
The most insidious of them all, this monster is hardest to identify, and yet the most dangerous. Chemical food preservatives are destroying our health quietly and packing the pounds on unassuming consumers. MSG, aspartame, food dyes, high fructose corn syrup and preservatives are in nearly EVERY pre-packaged food and food manufacturers are very clever at disguising names of these toxins. The health impact from these poisons reaches from cancer to obesity to even mood disorders, with so much more! Next time you reach for that snack, read your ingredients label. Don't be fooled!
This monster is tricky to detect to the average eye, but knowing the tell-tale signs of his presence are what we are experts at! Women with facial hair, round faces and terrifying periods, beware! Men with depression or the humorously named "man-boobs", you may have fallen victim as well! Environmental toxins are sabotaging our hormones in things we may never think about, from xenoestrogens in plastic water bottles to the growth hormones we get in beef and dairy. It's time to discover if your weight issues are from the Hormone Monster!
You know exactly who this monster is don't you? How many diets have you been on? How many of them worked to keep the weight off? The scary part of this monster is the unhealthy cycle he perpetuates, with each new fad diet viciously feeding the problem and causing even greater weight gain in the end. Get off his scary merry-go-round! He is only destroying your confidence in yourself and likely harming your health. Kiss him goodbye forever!
