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The New American Diet

These days it seems like almost everyone is on some kind of diet. Well, what if you suddenly found out that some of the most basic, low-calorie, low-fat foods were actually making you fat? Author, Stephen Perrine, joins us to reveal the truth.




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" It seems like almost everybody's on some kind of diet or another well. Suddenly found out that some of the most basic low calorie low fat foods like fruits and chicken breasts were actually making you fat. When the new book the new American diet author Stephen for -- reveals the truth about some of the obesity causing chemicals actually. Live and our so called healthy foods. He's here to tell us all about it -- daddy here Steve thanks -- thinking is people think they're eating healthier it's getting confusing at this point in time I bet you could think you're eating healthier find out foods that are supposed to be better for you but there's chemicals in those foods right they play well we're not."

" Talking -- which I hear about something called obese suggestions or endocrine disrupting chemicals. And their chemicals that are in certain foods. That play with or hormone -- system. And they can actually trigger weight gain vial by making our bodies it's create more fat cells that have been making the fat cells that we have better it's storing fat so."

" you talk about the old American diet versus the new American diet what was then and now what's out right. In terms of the the breakfast over here that you have a storm of the old American diets are really eating a low fat kind of serial well --"

" remember will -- few years ago we all being told eat soy it's good for your heart will the American Heart Association. It's even backed off that statement nowadays twice as always one of the reasons is that so away. Contains two chemicals that mimic the hormone estrogen. So when you were eating a lot of sore right we basically getting a low level estrogen therapy and nobody really wants that cost me a lot more soaring. -- we think we do it's an all sorts of food right right so we look at something like a I guess cereal that promotes itself as high in protein when he. They usually means it's Heinz silly but one bowl of this isolate Syria Syria. Contain as much soy protein as you'd find in Taylor's home -- cops. Of soy -- black and you're getting -- of these kind of estrogen mimicking chemicals and lower your metabolism and make your -- want this to -- that another thing is like the old American -- said -- a fruit salad is a great way to diet and obviously a look at efforts here they -- good but it's not so much what's in the food is what's on the outside right well it's the pesticides the average Americans exposed to between ten and thirteen different pesticides every single day. Many of those RBC agents obesity causing chemicals -- so Lisa also look for do you have for us here that -- obviously you have to -- appeal or you're not gonna be eating dead and one other rev -- whenever you're looking at a through -- grapefruit. Pineapples bananas where your healing of -- less susceptible to pesticides and when you are eating things like apples pears strawberries which -- skins. That's when you wanna look organic produce whenever you can't -- again it's more expensive -- a lot of organic just these certain fruits you wanna be aware that's a good point that's made -- with the cancer and a very quickly we think this is a good option but -- they can and it's and it's not good we should be going for the packaged version FDA recently came out the warning about EPA which is a chemical that's found in the plastic lining of these camps. Again it mimics estrogen and it leaches into the food and his. Especially when it's a -- acidic foods it's found and can't. The tuna. Great option Disco tune and pouches of -- not along with BP ANC you eliminate that risk goalie Lotta things to look for at least now we know thank you so much -- pleasure."

" And -- got to find out other foods that might be making you fat just pick up a copy of the new American diet which is available now."

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