By Dr. Seun Sowemimo
I wanted to lose some weight a few years ago during a time when my cholesterol and sugar levels put me close to the danger range.
I exercised like a fiend and cut out junk food, but the scale barely moved.
I took a closer look at the foods I was eating and soon learned why I wasn’t losing weight.
The meats, even the so-called ‘healthy meats,’ eggs, cheese, and even fish were stuffed with hormones blocking my path to weight loss.
FACT: What you don’t eat is as important as the foods you do eat.
I focused on eating a plant-based diet and only had animal products one day a week. And the weight came off quickly.
In fact, I dropped 35 pounds just by getting rid of meat and dairy and even shrimp.
There are 3 key reasons why eating foods from animal products wreck havoc on your overall health–including your weight:
1. Chronic Inflammation
Animal products cause inflammation in the body. Inflammation in the body is the root cause of many chronic diseases: diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and many types of cancer.
2. Calorie Density
FACT: Not all protein is good protein and not all carbs are bad carbs.
That oversized roasted chicken everyone buys from Costco and Sam’s Club, along with those cheese sticks you eat all day long, contain far more calories than you may realize. A pound of cooked chicken packs in 1,000 calories alone!
3. Gut Bacteria
The microbial, made up of about 3 pounds of incredibly important bacteria sitting in our bellies, function best when they receive a steady supply of fiber, which comes from a whole food plant-based diet. When this doesn’t happen, the system is off-kilter, allowing issues from depression to obesity to ramp up. Animal-based products have little or no fiber.
Click here https://youtu.be/XNAOss3pKCM to find out more about all the delicious plant-based foods you can eat.
How do you start a plant-based nutrition plan?
Let me explain via video:
How do you make this transition? It’s easier than you think. Start now. Learn more about eating real food and forgoing all that heavy, calorie-dense meat that just makes you feel tired after you eat it. I eat only 5% of animal-based foods today.
If you are looking for a new way to eat more and lose weight, congrats, you’ve found it.
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