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Water pollution from pharmaceutical drugs is an emerging issue. Pharmaceuticals are now a whole new class of water pollutants that can be found at ‘toxicologically significant levels’. These drugs find their way into the public water supply from pharmaceutical industries, medical facilities and from household disposal of unused medicines. Human excreta also contain significant drug residues.

Read the Natural News report: Poisoning the Water Supply

Emerging evidence shows the thyroid gland is extremely vulnerable to the effects of environmental pollution. It is not surprising that as we eat more toxic foods and become increasingly exposed to pollution that thyroid problems are becoming epidemic.

The most dangerous chemicals to the thyroid are organochlorine pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), heavy metals, dioxins and furans. These thyroid disrupting chemicals (TDCs) interfere directly with thyroid function.

One example of a common TDC is fluoride, a heavy metal with a strong affinity to the thyroid gland. The harmful effects are best illustrated by the fact that fluoride is used as a thyroid suppressing medication for hyperthyroid conditions. Fluoride is often added to urban water supplies and dental products are a common source.

Natural Thyroid Health Is Possible: Recover Thyroid Function

Discover 10 Facts About Fluoride: Fluoride Alert

Gout is a painful form of arthritis which mainly affects the big toe. This results when crystals of uric acid are deposited in the joints. Uric acid is a by-product of protein metabolism and people who are overweight often have much higher levels of uric acid in their blood. New research shows that even two cans of sugar sweetened soft drinks daily can double the risk of gout.

Reference: British Medical Journal. 9 February 2008;336:309-312.

You Can Control Your Gout Naturally: Gout: A Natural Approach

A major study of 80,000 women showed that those who regularly use artificial sweeteners put on more weight per year than those who do not use them. What is even more surprising is the finding that, with the widespread use of sweeteners, the consumption of ordinary sugar and sugary foods increased too. It appears the more chemical sugar substitutes you consume, the more you seek out sugary foods.

Aspartame, sucralose, saccharin, neotame, tagatose and acesulfame K are the most common artificial sweeteners. Beware, these artificial sweeteners used to substitute sugar are found in processed foods, medications, nutritional supplements and most ‘diet’ foods. Artificial sweeteners are not a magic bullet. For healthy weight loss, you need to eat well and exercise regularly.

Read The Report Diet Sweeteners Can Make You Sick & Fat

Not everyone wants a six pack ab but if you want to trim down around the waist and get a flatter stomach you have to lose weight all over. As you start to lose the weight sit-ups or crunches will make a difference to how your waist and stomach look.

Ab exercises will blast body fat around the belly. Let Bob Harper, Personal Trainer from The Biggest Loser show you how.

Discover 10 Rules To Lose Belly Fat Fast

Toxic chemicals in your food can wreak havoc on how your body functions, particularly your metabolism. A healthy, nutritious organic diet can help you lose weight.

Discover Twenty Good Reasons to Buy Organic: Organic Food For Health & Our Planet

A report in the journal Neurology has revealed that weight loss surgery such as a gastric bypass can lead to memory loss and confusion. The syndrome, called Wernicke encephalopathy, is caused by a lack of vitamin B1 and can also cause problems with vision. The report found that the syndrome usually struck between one and three months after obesity surgery.

The start of a new year is the ideal time to think about your health, in particular your diet habits. Decide now to avoid all the high calorie, mass produced foods that have become so widely available in our supermarkets, but provide very little health benefits.

Of particular concern are the high GI foods that cause spikes in your insulin levels. These types of foods increase your cancer risk. Cancer cells use insulin as a growth factor, which helps explain why overweight people have a much higher incidence of cancer.

Now is the time to retrain yourself to select delicious, highly nutritious foods that provide life!

Discover The Natural Weight Loss Diet

Now is the perfect time to get off the couch and kick start some good exercise habits. Start with a sport or exercise program that you enjoy.

Long term fitness requires planning, discipline and finding ways to motivate yourself every day.

Read About Exercise For Health

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Your metabolic setpoint is what your body considers to be your normal body weight. Your individual fat to muscle ratio is closely regulated by your body even when your body composition becomes unhealthy.

Your metabolism defends your metabolic setpoint by slowing down or speeding up when your weight approaches the outer limits of your accepted range. It will fight to maintain what it has set at your ideal weight.

A slow, steady approach to weight loss helps to minimise resistance to changes to your metabolic setpoint.

How to Adjust Your Metabolic Setpoint

Why is it that we feel sicker not healthier?

Scientists are increasingly concerned that long term low-level exposures to chemicals can cause serious health issues.

Pesticides, heavy metals, industrial pollution and the cumulative effect of toxic exposure over many years can wreak havoc on how your body functions, particularly your metabolism.

You cannot achieve healthy natural weight loss if your body is choked with toxins.

Here are 10 pollution solutions to help minimise your exposure to toxic chemicals

Read These 10 Pollution Solutions

While borderline low thyroid function is becoming more widely accepted by traditional endocrinologists, reverse T3 dominance is often overlooked.

This thyroid problem is often difficult to diagnose as low thyroid symptoms exist, but standard thyroid tests appear to be within normal limits. Only a test for reverse T3 will rule out reverse T3 dominance.

Testing For Reverse T3 Dominance