'''YOUR - ''WAIST'' - MANAGEMENT'''
When we think about losing weight, most of us focus on two things: the food we eat and the stomach where it ends up. The first part makes sense. But the second part is misguided. Remember, it's not the big stomach that gives us our huge and ugly bellies but a layer of fat called the omentum which hangs in front of our intestines and stomach. And it's how food interacts with our small intestine, not our stomach, that helps determine how big the omentum gets.
Lets's start with the small intestine. The first thing to note is that it's where food is absorbed into the body. You can actually live without much of a stomach but you cannot survive without a small intestine. Maybe you knew that much. But here are three things you didn't know about your gut:
1. Many researchers believe that Marijuana is the future of weight loss. Okay, not really, but it's like this. The omentum, the flabby thing located near the stomach, is the most important part of your body's fat-delivery system. It stores fat when you really need it. There are receptors on the omentum that cause people to want to eat; back in famine time, it was these receptors that made people chow on ants, worms, seeds -anything that would help store extra fat for when food became scarce. Oddly, these same receptors in your brain sense marijuana. Hence their name ''cannabinoid receptors. Bad things can happen when they get stimulated by pot or stress: Not only does your omentum begin storing fat -making you fatter- it also instructs the liver to make more cholesterol, and it triggers your muscles to ignore the natural effects of insulin, which can cause diabetes. Researchers have found recently that some of us are genetically predisposed to having these receptors work against us, and scientists are currently working on new diet drugs that are rooted in the way illegal narcotics work. The good news? It's in the nature of omentum to want make itself disappear, if you eat well and exercise fair consistently, you'll lose as much as two inches of omental fat in one month.
2.Eating before 10 am. is easy and essential. Why is breakfast good for you? How can it be good for you to eat more food when you're dieting? Well, it's not, if that food is a bag of doughnuts. But if you have high-fiber breakfast, the fiber will slow down the absorption and the movement of food through your intestines. It slams shut this valve at the end of small intestine called ileal brake -like the brake on a train that the conductor pulls. It literally closes, because the small bowel feels the fiber in it and doesn't want to let go of it. so the food moves more slowly through your system. And guess what? You're full for longer.
3. Your small intestine has moods. You can actually keep your small intestine healthy and happy. Yes, happy. It contains as`many neurons as your spinal column. In many ways, the small intestine is like a second brain. Ninety five of your serotonin -the brain's mood- regulating chemical- is contained in your small intestine's elaborate network of nerves. That's a reason why we feel strong emotions like fear, anticipation, and love deep in our guts as well as our minds. The intestine's nerves can also suffer from the same diseases that affects the brain. A lack of adequate serotonin in the gut can cause an irritable bowel, just as low levels in the brain can cause depression. Think of this the next time someone says you have shit for brains!!
And remember Your waist, in inches, should be one half your height or less.
Respectful and loving dedication to the Better You and a Better World!
Good Night & God Bless!
SAM Daily Times - the Voice of the Voiceless
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