A New You in the New Year posted on January 1, 2016 by Dr. Carol Ann Fischer, DC

Did you make a New Year’s resolution to lose weight? Here are some simple tips to start you on the road to a New You in the New Year.

It is true that you are what youeat. To lose more weight this year you need to stop eating fat storing foods and eat fat burning foods. Getting your metabolism to work efficiently is also important in weight loss.

Having an efficient metabolism means correctly digesting foods, and burning stored body fat for fuel. Food digestion requires the proper combination of digestive enzymes produced by the stomach, liver and pancreas. Failure to digest efficiently results in the undigested food being stored as unwanted body fat.

 

Sugar is a fat storing food. Sugar is hidden in all processed and man-made foods. Sugar is the product of all carbohydrates. Carbohydrates include fruits, vegetable and grains. Your body converts natural and man-made foods like potatoes, corn, pop, fries, chips, breads, pasta, cakes, candies, juices and cookies into sugar. Eating more sugar in the form of carbohydrates than your body needs will cause you to gain weight.

Your body needs 80-100 grams of carbohydrates daily for fuel. Carbohydrates are the kindling to the fire. The body burns them quickly and then burns the slower burning fuel, fat. The body cannot burn stored fat when carbohydrates are eaten too frequently.

The average American consumes between 300-600 grams of carbohydrates daily, or 1-3 cups of sugar. What the body cannot process or use, it will store as excess body fat around your waist, hips and thighs. To lose weight, look for the hidden sugars and eliminate them from your diet.

Dr. Sherry Yale, DC at TLC Holistic Wellness in Livonia, MI is offering the opportunity for you to Start the New Year Healthy. Anyone in the Detroit and surrounding area including Bloomfield Hills, Farmington Hills, Novi, Redford, Westland and more can take advantage of this unique program.

This Start the New Year Healthy Program includes the following:

• A No Charge Consultation

• Free Stress Test

• Free Adrenal Stress Test for Hormone Imbalance

• Free Health Check Up
• Free Digestion Evaluation
• Free Diet and Sugar Consumption Analysis

• Free Evaluation for Undetected Nerve Damage

• Free Weight Loss Evaluation and Recommendations if Needed

Please call (734) 664-0339 and ask for your Start the New Year Healthy Program FREE as a gift from us to you. These services are normally valued at $175. You can become a New You in the New Year. Call now to schedule your appointment to receive your gift. Don't delay as this opportunity expires at the end of January 2016. 

 

Conquering Weight

Posted by Dr. Carol Ann Fischer, DC

As we start the New Year, win the battle against holiday weight gain or that stubborn weight that refuses to budge.

Unwanted weight gain occurs primarily from hormone imbalance. Excess dietary sugar and carbohydrates trigger the body to go into fat storage mode. When Trans Fats are part of the diet the body is unable to use or metabolize them. More fat storage occurs.

Excess sugars and Trans Fats are stored as body fat, especially around the abdomen, butt and thighs. The body will do what it can to store these as far away from the heart as possible. This is one reason why muscles become marbled with fat.

Once excess fat is present, the body will use the fat to store excess fat storing hormones and toxins. The more body fat, the more the hormone imbalance occurs.

Toxins abound in personal care products, household cleaners, and our food, air and water.

*   There are 1700 new chemicals released yearly in the US. Only 45% are tested for toxicity.

*   More than 700 chemicals are added to drinking water supplies.  

*   Common personal care cosmetics expose people daily to over 200 different hormone altering or cancer causing chemicals.

*  The average American consumes 14 pounds of chemical additives, 180 pounds of table sugar and 8 pounds of commercial table salt yearly.

*  During processing and storage 10,000 compounds are added to the more than 320,000 processed     foods available today.

*  Of the many toxins found in packaged foods, the worst is Trans Fat or partially hydrogenated fat. This fat raises LDL cholesterol and causes additional hormone stress.

Without good dietary fats the body is forced to use Trans Fat in its cell membranes. Water and nutrients cannot get into the cells and toxins cannot get out. Toxins become stored in more body fat and hormone stress/imbalance increases.

Good fat is essential for the body. It also protects the brain and nervous system. Every cell membrane in the body contains good fat. The body requires good dietary fat like flax seed, avocado, chia seed, olive oil, and fresh un-rancid Omega 3 fish oil to enable it to balance hormones.

To conquer the weight and win the battle requires simple changes in dietary & lifestyle habits including healthy water and nutrition to help re-balance the hormones naturally, and the release of fat burning hormones instead of fat storing hormones. This strategy successfully allows the body to gently release the toxins and burn the fat. You can be the winner in the weight loss battle!

Written by Dr. Carol Ann Fischer, D.C. with Dr. Sherry Yale, D.C. who now owns TLC HolisticWellness in Livonia. Dr. Yale has provided holistic and nutritional recommendations using diet & whole food supplements for 26 years as a practicing chiropractor, holistic-wellness consultant in the Livonia, Michigan area. Visit www.TLCHolisticWellness.com for more information and to learn about our free weight loss analysis, or call (734) 664-0339. Long distance help is also available by contacting Dr. Fischer at drfischer@tlcholisticwellness.com