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Are Toxins Making You Fat?

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:04:14 GMT

Liver health is very important and also very overlooked. Your liver is the #1 organ for metabolizing fats in your diet and in your body. It is also responsible for healthy cholesterol levels, proper digestion and detoxifying poisons we all get exposed to. So if it is not addressed with a cleanse/detox program every so often it will not be efficient at helping you rid your body of excess fat. Think of how often you are told to change the oil filter in your car. Yet no one reminds us to degunk your filtering system in your body.

Ask Bill: Can stress cause stomach fat?

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:02:21 GMT

Some health studies show that abdominal fat can develop as a result of stress. This is because the hormone cortisol is released during stress, and a high level of cortisol in the body appears to stimulate the storage of fat around the belly and abdomen.

Ask Bill: What causes a fat belly?

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:00:55 GMT

Where we store fat (surplus calories or surplus sugar) is largely a combination of gender, age and genetic inheritance. Men tend to store fat around their middle (apple shape), whereas women typically store fat around the pelvic region, hips, butt and thighs (pear shape).