Minerals and Weight Management
Do Minerals make you thin?
Deficiencies of certain minerals, including chromium, potassium and magnesium can cause imbalances in the way your body handles carbohydrates, making it more likely to increase body fat as a result of eating them.
Minerals, such as chromium and zinc, if lower than optimal will affect many functions in your body including your taste, and your blood sugar balance. A disruption of either can lead to food cravings and constant desire for sweet foods, making losing weight even harder.
Xooma X2O contains:
- Magnesium
- Chromium
- Potassium
- Coral Calcium including 70 additional Minerals total!
"[Because of X2O] I have less desire for sweets in my diet. Some of those regular 'cravings' for goodies, donuts, pies, cookies, are gone. I noticed that right away! Also, I don't have to eat as much food at a meal and do not go for 'second helpings'. I seem satisfied before the first helping of food is gone. This is great!" -J.M.
Weight Management & Minerals
Ensuring that you have the optimal level of minerals is a vital component to not only being as healthy as possible but also to optimise your weight management including weight loss. This is because minerals have key roles to play in important factors that relate to fat in a number of different ways.
Minerals have a direct effect on the following: appetite control, blood sugar balance, food cravings, and the use of fat for energy in your body, adrenal and thyroid hormone functions.
Although the nearly 20 essential trace elements in humans constitute a small fraction of your total body weight (less than 4%), the effect of their presence on your well-being is enormous.
Disturbances in only one of your your minerals can affect your ability to lose and maintain weight loss. Weight loss programs can lead to a loss of essential minerals and this can mean that muscle mass rather than fat is lost.2 This makes maintaining weight loss much harder as only your muscle tissue is metabolically active enough to constantly use fat (24hrs a day) as fuel.
During your weight loss attempts you will obtain better short and long term health benefits by maintaining your mineral levels at an optimum point. Eating mineral rich foods must be the starting point, but how do you know if you are eating enough to meet your personal needs? What if you are also exercising vigorously?3, or take certain medicines?, are drinking alcohol regularly?,4 are under negative stress?5, or take the contraceptive pill?6
Do you eat processed or ready-prepared foods?7 Do you eat foods that competitively inhibit the uptake of the essential nutrients from your foods?8 Maybe you are a diabetic?9 Whatever your medical and dietary history one thing is certain - you are biochemically unique and the demands you place on yourself each day will also contribute to unique mineral needs.
References
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4. Brown RA, Crawford M, Natavio M, Petrovski P, Ren J. Dietary magnesium supplementation attenuates ethanol-induced myocardial dysfunction. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 1998 Dec;22(9):2062-72.
5.Singh A, Smoak BL, Patterson KY, LeMay LG, Veillon C, Deuster PA.Am J Clin Nutr. 1991 Jan;53(1):126-31. Biochemical indices of selected trace minerals in men: effect of stress.
6. Margen S, King JC. Effect of oral contraceptive agents on the metabolism of some trace minerals. Am J Clin Nutr. 1975 Apr;28(4):392-402.
7. Schroeder HA. Losses of vitamins and trace minerals resulting from processing and preservation of foods. Am J Clin Nutr. 1971 May;24(5):562-73.
8. Lonnerdal B J Nutr. Dietary factors influencing zinc absorption. 2000 May;130(5S Suppl):1378S-83S.
9. Walter RM Jr, Uriu-Hare JY, Olin KL, Oster MH, Anawalt BD, Critchfield JW, Keen CL Copper, zinc, manganese, and magnesium status and complications of diabetes mellitus. Diabetes Care. 1991 Nov;14(11):1050-6.