Secrets to Losing Weight & Better Health

Warning: What you are exposed to everyday in the foods you eat and what you drink can lead to major health problems and is probably putting your health at risk. Heart attack and stroke account for 30 % of all global deaths. Every 40 seconds an American dies from these two diseases. Direct and indirect costs from these two diseases exceed 320 billion dollars, including health care cost and loss productivity. More than two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese. Nearly half of all African-American adults have some form of heart disease, which is the number one cause of death in the world.

Well-known research reveals that many leading health experts, including the World Health Organization blame saturated fats as the cause for clogging the arteries, which leads to the high rate of heart attacks. However, other leading health experts and followers of the Ketosis and Atkins Diets take a contrary view that fats, including saturated fats, are not bad for your health. They say their bodies burn fat for energy instead of burning sugars added to the diet or glucose ( a form of sugar made by the body).

Why these conflicting opinions about saturated fats? Are saturated fats good or bad for you? Who is right? The research in this book explains this conflict, reveals how both make a valid point, and goes on to expose the real silent killer. The research in this book DECODES the common denominator of the top five leading causes of death in America, which leads to weight gain and obesity. Discover the silent killer and how you can be tested and avoid these risks.

This book educates you about the processing systems within your body. Learn what are nutrients and what are not. Find the three things that happen to everything you consume. Find out what your body can and cannot process. Discover the dangers of forcing food or drinks into your body that your system cannot process. Learn your choices to be healthy and the consequences for failing to do so. See simple techniques for losing weight safely and staying healthy. Understand how your body absorbs nutrients. Learn the importance of removing waste from your body. Discover the dangers of toxins in your bloodstream.

This book is an investment in your health; it is a must-read if you want to find out how you and your loved ones can avoid these risks and how you can lose weight. This book can reduce the health care cost in your business and increase productivity and your bottom line by keeping your employees healthier, which reduces sick time taken off work and low productivity due to low energy.

Co-author, Dr. Vera Gilford wanted to learn why she was diagnosed with a cancer that destroyed her right kidney while living a "healthy lifestyle." The commonly known and suspected causes of cancer did not apply to her. The experience left her wanting to know what she had been exposed to that caused this disease. Read the section, About the Co-Author Vera Gilford and how her diagnosis was not found by her doctor during the routine physical, it was discovered because she was in-tune with her body and kept asking questions. If she had not inquired and sought more answers, more tests would not have been run, and "seven" second-opinions would not have discovered that cancer had destroyed her kidney.

What she learned in writing this book is that if her parents had known what is in this book years ago during her formative years, she could have avoided losing a kidney to cancer in her adult life. She is grateful that she could very well have been a statistic today. Her researching and writing skills in law and publishing other books helped her to compile and share this information. This book gives you information she wishes her parents had read years ago. The information in this book could very well save your life.