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Weight Gain is an Essential Nutrient Deficiency
"Exercise does not help weight loss." - New England Journal of Medicine. Whuh?! This has been experienced by many individuals already, and yet the message still hasn't gotten through. There is something wrong.
Essential Minerals and Nutrients Hold the Key
The reason is simple: When we sweat, we lose essential nutrients and minerals through our sweat. Ever notice why cats and dogs and rabbits like to lick our skin after we sweat? The nutrients and minerals coming out of the sweat are considered a great "soup" to these animals.
To make up for the nutrient and mineral loss, people then get cravings for food. This is all right. The reason we eat is so we can obtain the essential nutrients and minerals that the body needs in order to repair itself.
But the food that is presented to us now does not contain enough essential nutrients, minerals or vitamins for us to fully recover. Most foods today, grown or processed, contain a stew of artificial preservatives, sugars, hormones, and other processed chemicals that our bodies can't handle.
For example, it only takes 3 essential nutrients for a plant to grow, while it takes 60 to 90 essential nutrients for a healthy body to grow. Since about the 1930's, farmers are only required to add 3 nutrients into the soils. This is because produce farmers are not well subsidized as the meat and grain industries. So farmers have to work harder to get the vegetables to you in a quick and efficient manner. For instance, most fruits and vegetables are picked before they are ripened to their peak nutrition, otherwise they would spoil by the time you were able to purchase them in the store. Add pesticides, hormones, and other chemicals to already depleted produce, and you have a bigger mess on your hands.
If you're exercising your body but not replenishing it with the nutrients lost through sweat, you are only producing more injury to the body as you are forcing it to work with resources it cannot obtain. Since the belief is to "not eat" after exercise in a panic to save the body from calories, you further deprive yourself by denying your body at least a few nutrients found in depleted foods.
This was known since before the industrial revolution of processing foods. It is really very simple you are an organic, natural being, so the food you ingest should be too. Yet this is not the case with our diets.
Time Magazine - Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin.........................
New York Times - Why Doesn't Exercise Lead to Weight Loss?...............
So What About Exercise?
A study done by Dr. Van Camp and colleagues during 1995 describes 160 cases of non-dramatic death in high school and college among the athletes in the years between 1983 and 1993. The ratio of males to females was in the vicinity of 10 to 1. This means there were 146 males at an average age of 16.9 years. There were 14 females at the average age of 16.2. The age range was between 13 to 24 years of age.
The median age at death was about 17 years, which means that one half of the cases were 17 years of age or younger.
"In both studies, the major contributor to sudden death from cardiovascular causes during sports was hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. In the study of high school and college athletes, 136 of the 160 cases had adequate information to identify the cause of death. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was the cause in 50 of 92 males and in 1 of 8 females with cardiovascular conditions. In the other study, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was cited in 48 of the 134 athletes. The second most common cardiovascular cause of death in the two studies was congenital abnormalities of the blood vessels servicing the heart (the coronary arteries), 16% and 13% in each study. A variety of rare cardiovascular conditions as well as several apparently "normal hearts" were represented in the remainder of the cases of sudden death."
According to the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, 100,000 young athletes die each year from all cardiovascular disorders, including cardiomyopathy, as a result of participation in sports. This is twice as many who die in auto accidents. Of the 100,000 who die annually, 45,000 of them play basketball, not boxing or football. While the above study did not groupn the athletes according to sports, it would seem from this study that basketball is commonly associated with heart failure.
A case in point is that of the late Boston Celtic basketball star Reggie Lewis. Reggie died of a cardiomyopathy heart attack. The cause of his heart attack was a simple Selenium deficiency. His outcome could have been prevented with the proper mineral supplementation.
The cardiologist who cared for Reggie Lewis was also the cardiac expert for the NBA. He was an avid runner and had personally completed the Boston Marathon three times. As it turns out, this marathon running doctor, at the age of 48, died one and half years after Reggie--due to a cardiomyopathy heart attack. His heart attack was caused by the same thing as Reggie's--a simple Selenium mineral deficiency.
