Why Kefir is an Essential Food for Anyone Trying to Shed Pounds
Tired of struggling with your weight? You’re not alone. Find out how kefir can be your best ally in any healthy weight loss plan.
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Here’s a well-publicized and sobering fact: Over 60% of Americans are overweight, and childhood obesity is reaching epidemic proportions.
As a result, obesity related diseases like diabetes and heart disease are on the rise
Why is this happening?
Most people would agree that weight gain and chronic disease are often a product of lifestyle.
Here are the major poor-lifestyle contributors to weight gain:
While the World Health Organization says that obesity is on the rise worldwide due to processed foods, there is more to this picture.1 It’s your inner ecosystem.
Your inner ecosystem is the healthy microflora (good bacteria and yeast) that live in your intestines and keep you healthy and strong. They keep you in balance, including your weight. And yet, all of the above mentioned items: processed foods, sugar, stress and environmental toxins kill your healthy microflora.
This creates an imbalanced inner ecosystem that can lead to weight gain and other states of illness or disease.
The Key to a Healthy Inner Ecosystem
So how do you create a healthy inner ecosystem? Reducing stress and following a Body Ecology lifestyle is critical to making this happen.
You can read more in: 8 Common Misperceptions about Obesity and Why Body Ecology is the Ideal Obesity Solution
If you really want an easy way to boost the health of your inner ecosystem, fermented foods and drinks are tops on the list of healthy foods.
Fermented foods and drinks are full of healthy microflora (also called probiotics). In fact, the RIGHT probiotics can actually help re-colonize your inner ecosystem with the good bacteria and yeast you need to stay healthy and maintain a healthy weight.
The right probiotics are those that are: (1) native to your intestines and (2) work in harmony with one another.
A great way to get the right probiotics for your inner ecosystem health is by drinking kefir.
Spotlight on Kefir: Health & Weight Loss Benefits
A favorite of ours in the world of fermented foods and drinks is kefir.
When we refer to kefir, there are two varieties of this probiotic-rich fermented drink:
- Milk Kefir – calming, soothing milk kefir has been shown in recent studies to help with weight loss and maintenance.2
Keep in mind that we recommend you don’t add milk kefir to your diet until you’ve completed the initial, healing stages of the Body Ecology program (called “stage 1”), so that you can build up beneficial dairy-loving bacteria first.
- Young Coconut Kefir – You can start drinking Young Coconut Kefir right away to get the benefits of healthy probiotics. In addition, this will help re-populate your intestines with dairy-loving bacteria. Then add the milk kefir a little bit each day to “train” your microflora to the new dairy food and your chances of digesting it will be much better.
With milk kefir and Young Coconut Kefir, you get the beneficial bacteria and yeast that researchers are finding so crucial to immunity, weight loss and maintenance. And just for a fringe benefit, both milk kefir and Young Coconut Kefir have beauty and anti-aging benefits too!.
A Craving for Balance
Your body craves balance, above all else.
When it is NOT getting the proper nutrition, your entire system falls out of balance, and pathogenic bacteria and yeast, like candida begin to dominate your gut.
These pathogenic microflora thrive on processed foods and sugar, and can create powerful cravings for more food. Your stomach may be full, but your body is hungry, because it isn’t getting and absorbing the nutrients it desperately needs.
A vicious cycle of cravings, eating, more pathogen overgrowth, and weight gain ensues.
Find out more by reading: If You Have Certain Food Cravings, It May be Due to the Bacteria in Your Gut
Making Your Own Milk Kefir and Young Coconut Kefir
You’d be surprised at how easy it is to make your own delicious milk kefir. Try Body Ecology Kefir Starter today to start experiencing the amazing benefits of this ancient superfood.
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The bad news: commercial probiotic products, including milk kefir and yogurt are inferior products when it comes to getting the right probitoics to build your inner ecosystem.
To find out what you need to know before buying commercial kefir and yogurt, read: Why Dannon Activa™ and Other Mass-Market Probiotic Products are Not as Healthy as You Think.
The good news: we created a Kefir Starter with the best probiotics to build a healthy inner ecosystem…that is perfect for your budget because you can make it at home!
Body Ecology Kefir Starter is packed with probiotics native to the human digestive tract and that work in harmony with one another. Using kefir starter with our easy directions for making milk kefir and making Young Coconut Kefir is fun, easy, economical (you can make 7 batches with each packet!) and far superior to any ready-made kefir you’ll find in stores.
Since we know that not everyone has time to find and crack young green coconuts to make Young Coconut Kefir, we created Coco-Biotic for those who crave health AND convenience.
Whether you do it yourself or go for convenience, you owe it to yourself to stop dieting and start building your inner ecosystem....with good, healing foods and the beneficial bacteria and yeast that will help keep you in balance.
Sources:
1 BBC News. Eat less processed food, say experts. March 3, 2003.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2814253.stm
2 FOCUS ON DAIRY RESEARCH. November 2004.
http://www.foodnavigator.com/news/listnews.asp?m=10&y=2006
Propionic acid beverage could boost satiety, by Jess Halliday
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?id=84051-propionic-acid-satiety-dairy
2 FOCUS ON DAIRY RESEARCH. November 2004.
http://www.foodnavigator.com/news/listnews.asp?m=10&y=2006
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