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what fume, what pesticide, what toxin is the one that puts you over the top?
    Obesity rates have more than doubled in the past thirty years. Doesn’t it raise the question of why? Toxins make you fat. It’s that simple, and that complex. Here’s why.
    Mitochondria are the little powerhouses inside every living cell in your body. They provide power for your cells by creating energy from fats and sugars, thereby driving your metabolism and fueling your whole body.
    When toxins enter your body the buildup damages the mitochondria, your cellular power plants, so they no longer work effectively. As a result,fats and sugars that aren’t being burned for fuel pile up all over the body in the form of extra pounds. Also, without the mitochondria working optimally, you lose your physical energy. You see it every day—middle-aged people who are out of gas, have no energy, always feel sluggish. Is that you? If so, you probably don’t have the energy to exercise, and this fatigue causes food cravings, usually for sugar and carbohydrates. So now there’s a domino effect—but you are the one getting knocked down, while you get fatter and fatter.
    Every one of us is living in a toxic world.
    We are under the greatest environmental assault in the history of mankind. Toxins are everywhere; they’re in our homes, our offices, the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we consume, the cosmetics and creams we put on our bodies. Just by living in this day and age we build up a toxic load. These toxins move throughout the bloodstream alongside the nutrients, the oxygen and other essentials, our bodies need. These man-made chemicals, originally designed to help us live better lives, were never intended to be inside of us. At some point these toxins reach critical mass in our bodies, and then we’re in trouble. What microwaved food covered in plastic, or diet soda, or trans-fat-laden fast-food burger, or pesticide will be the tipping point to toxic overload and an entrée to disease and obesity?
BEAST OF BURDEN
    Americans’ average toxic burden is higher than it’s ever been. And the obesity rate in this country is off the charts. So connect the dots. It’s not a coincidence. Scientific studies show a strong correlation between levels of toxic burden, higher body weight, and the risk of diabetes.
    Yet not all people who carry a toxic burden are fat. Some people arebetter at fighting back, but this toxic load will surface in ways other than obesity: fatigue, autoimmune diseases such as lupus or fibromyalgia, cancer, allergies, and food intolerances to wheat, gluten, dairy, and sugar.
    Toxic overload comes on slowly, one day at a time, one year at a time, with the symptoms creeping up and getting worse and worse. It starts with relatively benign things like exhaustion, and then more serious conditions erupt such as asthma, gut disturbances, food intolerances, depression, arthritis, heart disease, cancer, Parkinson’s, and diabetes. These are all terrible conditions and diseases that are debilitating to the human body.
NOWHERE TO RUN
    No matter how the toxins get into our bodies, whether through the lungs, stomach, or skin, they all meet the liver at some point and from there get sent to the kidneys and colon for elimination, become trapped in bones, muscles, tissues, or other organs, or they get locked in the liver itself,
or
they get stored away in fat cells!
    The fact that many toxins get trapped in fat cells deserves special attention. Fat cells don’t get broken down easily, so the toxins literally weigh the body down. If you carry excess fat, burning up that fat releases toxins into the bloodstream for proper removal. As toxins accumulate, they act in unsuspected ways. You begin to experience health problems like allergies, colds, migraines, and infertility, or major diseases like breast cancer and dementia.
    Avoiding fat-soluble toxins sounds like a solution, but it is very difficult to do. We are constantly exposed to