Are Plastics Making Us Fat??

Have you been on every diet, exercised til you drop, done juicing, fasting and still you struggle to lose weight? Consider these shocking facts experts agree on but the public seems to be too slow to recognize.

This is the issue of our exposure to plastics and their toxic effects on the human body. Most people neglect to look at the cumulative cause that toxins may have on their inability to lose weight.

I will just be discussing one of the many significant toxins impacting our health in this blog.

What most people struggle to understand is that toxins are stored in fat. This is how your body protects the vital organs. In reality, your fat may actually be protecting you from the dangers of toxins. I just want to ask you for a moment to change your perspective on 'fat'.

We are exposed to more and more toxins in our environment, food, water and air. So what about plastics you ask? Where are they? Lets start with the plastic containers we store food in, the plastic wrappers most of our food is stored in (bread, chips, health food bars, etc), the plastic wrapping we wrap our food in, plastic cutlery, and this is just a start. Basically plastics are everywhere.

Take for example Bisphenol A. Also known as BPA, it copies the effect of the female hormone estrogen. This excess estrogen is stored in fat, and then this stimulates more estrogen to be made by the fat! So you enter a viscous cycle where weight loss seems impossible. This can be described as Estrogen Dominance Syndrome. 

BPA seriously messes up the proper function of your whole metabolism. Estrogen dominance is a greater contributor to obesity than most people realize.

When most people think of what estrogen does in pregnancy they associate it with growth. And that's exactly what it does, it encourages growth.

In addition to its link to obesity, it has also been found to increase rates of cancers, miscarriage, infertility, heart disease, diabetes, hyperactivity, and early onset puberty.

Bis-phenol A (BPA) is called an endocrine disruptor. This means it disrupts the functions of your endocrine, also known as your HORMONAL system. 

BPA can be found in reusable (polycarbonate #7 plastic) food and drink containers, the lining of canned food and drinks, and on the ink used for printing receipts.

In 2009 a Harvard study revealed that people who drank cold drinks from plastic bottles had a 70% increase in urinary levels of BPA within just one week!

Heat, repeated washing with dish washing liquid, and any contact with chlorinated water will increase the rate of BPA leaching.

The issue with plastics is that they also contain a wide range of further toxic additives that are able to give them properties such as hardness, transparency, heat resistance and flexibility. This is not evidenced by the recycling number tho!

Some tips to reduce your exposure:

•  Never microwave or heat plastic containers. Store food in glass containers as BPA will 'leach' into the food you’re eating.

• Choose companies that specifically say their cans are BPA free

• Wash your hands after handling receipts or choose not to get one printed when you are at the register in the supermarket!

• Only drink from bottles that are labelled BPA free
• Focus more on foods in your diet that assist with detoxification rather than weight loss

The issue isn’t IF chemicals will leach from the packaging, but HOW much! 

I believe we need to change our perspective form wanting to lose weight, and focusing instead on reducing our expose to these toxins and helping the body eliminate them. This is one of the real causes contributing to weight gain.

Take note of how many plastics you are exposed to today and be aware that for their convenience we may be paying a high price.

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