Weight loss and digestive system

                                                                                                                                                               

Thinking about losing weight?    

Think about your digestive system first.

Your gastrointestinal (GI) tract is the hub for about 70% of your immune system, making its healthy functioning highly important. GI tract has 100 trillion bacteria. Their functions include protecting the lining of the GI tract from invaders (bad bacteria) and helping you digest and assimilate nutrients. The sugar, chemicals, antibiotics, and hormones (used in modern-day foods) trigger and overgrowth of bad bacteria in the GI tract. 

Help your digestive system to battle bad bacteria by consuming more.  

Low-glycemic Fruit:

• Organic strawberries
• Blueberries, raspberries
• Apples
• Pears
• Nectarines
• Plums 
• Peaches 

Benefits:

• Do not spike your blood sugar and send you into fat-storing mode
• Help the liver remove toxins due to high antioxidant content

Vegetables:

• Chard
• Kale
• Bok choy
• Cabbage
• Broccoli 
• Collard greens
• Artichokes
• Asparagus
• Tomatoes
• Spinach
• Dark leafy greens

Benefits:

•  Make you feel full
• Due to high-fibre content helps regulate cholesterol, hormone levels, and excretion of toxins

Meat:

• Organic free range chicken, turkey and eggs
• Grass-fed beef
• Bison 
• Lamb 

Avoid:

•  Mass-produced meat: factory-farmed animals are fed things they do not  normally eat: corn, soy, hormones and antibiotics.