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Wednesday 6 October 2010

Probiotics To Reduce Weight

By Weight Loss King

What I'm about to share with you is very powerful information. It is subtle but can make a world of difference in people who have that "stubborn" belly fat.

We will describe to you how to you a way to lose weight by balancing your intestinal flora with probiotics.

We will describe the problem.. Then I'm going to tell you what to do about it and also what to avoid to keep it from coming back.

To begin, we will provide you with some background information on the normal intestinal flora of bacteria and a description of probiotics.

Let's compare antibiotics versus probiotics. Antibiotics are used to inhibit the growth of bacteria. There is some concern about antibiotic resistant bacteria; what we call "super bugs", or those that have generated a resistance to the antibiotics. On the other hand, probiotics rebalance the growth of the beneficial bacteria we need in our bodies to aid digestion and promote health.

Beneficial bacteria in the gut ideally comprise 80 to 90 percent of the total intestinal bacterial flora.. That 15% that remain are what we call, "not beneficial", or those that can become harmful. These beneficial bacteria assist in absorption of vitamins and minerals during the digestive process and are therefore an essential part to our natural digestive health. When the harmful bacteria overgrow, they crowd out beneficial bacteria.

We mentioned antibiotics earlier because when we take antibiotics for an infection an untoward effect is that the antibiotic usually destroys the beneficial bacteria in our intestines. When this happens the harmful bacteria displace the beneficial bacteria. The result is digestive problems.

Probiotics are way of restoring this bacterial balance in the digestive tract.

So how do probiotics maintain beneficial bacteria? They do this by crowding out the other micro flora, the bad bacteria that cause intestinal distress. The beneficial probiotics are found in foods like yogurt and other dairy products and used as a preservative. n general, probiotics are a natural way to maintain a healthy intestinal bacterial balance.

Numerous studies are now showing that overweight people have different intestinal bacteria than slender people. These bacteria result in low grade inflammation in your body that cause you to gain weight and increases the difficulty of losing weight. One bacterial family in particular called firmicutes help your body to extract calories from complex sugars and deposit those calories in fat. Overweight people have 20% more of this type of bacteria than slim people.

The solution to this difficulty is to balance your normal intestinal bacteria with probiotics. As a result of our poor diet, the majority of the population has an imbalance in their gut bacteria which causes all sorts of intestinal problems . That's another reason why you have otherwise thin people with an excessive amount of belly fat.. This bacterial imbalance in the intestinal tract makes it exceedingly difficult to lose belly fat..

Here's how to balance your healthy bacteria in your gut: Eliminate these things out of your diet and lifestyle as much as you can:

-Antibiotics

-Chlorinated water

-Antibacterial soap

-Agricultural chemicals

-Pollution

Eat these foods to help put good bacteria in your body so that it can "weed" out the bad bacteria:

- yogurt (the healthy kind)

- sauerkraut

- Fermented milk, such as kefir

- Various pickled fermentations of cabbage, turnips, eggplant, cucumbers, onions, squash and carrots

- Natta (fermented soy)

Make sure that these are not pasteurized because this kills a lot of the good bacteria (probiotics) in it.

If these foods aren't a regular part of your diet, a good probiotic can give your digestive tract the healthy boost that it needs to help to shed that stubborn belly fat.

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