Visualization for Weight Loss -The Gabriel Method

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Fat and Toxins

Y our body uses fat to protect you from toxins. This is yet another example of the way that your body uses obesity to try to keep you safe. A toxin is a non-nutritive and potentially harmful molecule, element, organism, or energy that your body must either eliminate or store in a safe place. Toxins come from our environment in the form of food, water, air, medications, electricity, and radiation. They are produced inside your body as a result of cellular muta- tions and also as a natural byproduct of your body’s metabolic processes; these are just natural stresses. In the modern industrial world, the chemical assaults on our bodies are numerous indeed. According to one source: 1 • some 77,000 chemicals are produced in North America alone; • more than 3,000 chemicals are added to our food supply; • more than 10,000 chemicals are used in the food processing industry; and • one thousand new chemicals are introduced to the food industry each year.

These chemicals accidentally end up in our ground water, rivers, lakes, and oceans as well as deliberately in our food supply.

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