Did you ever meet someone who could eat anything and not gain weight, while you look at a donut and your waist expands? What is going on there? Basically your gut sets you up to store fat. It’s true, you can experience inflammation in the gut, that leads to metabolic syndrome, that leads to obesity. Once this inflammatory system is set up, you will be prone to becoming obese, because your gut sets you up to store fat.

Same mice, feed same amount of food, just one difference

The team fed mice two very commonly used emulsifiers, polysorbate 80 and carboxymethylcellulose, at amounts found in almost all processed foods. They observed that emulsifier consumption changed the species composition of the gut bacteria and did so in a manner that made the gut wall have more inflammation. The bacteria from the fat mice infiltrated the dense mucus layer that lines the intestine, which is normally, largely devoid of bacteria.  This set up inflammation in the gut, the liver – and the result- these mice stored a lot of fat. The other mice did not.

First solution: stop eating the emulsifiers – and second step – you need to heal the gut, and the best way is by eating a lot of cooked vegetables. With all these common emulsifiers found in salad dressings is it any wonder you find people who want to lose weight at the salad bar? Didn’t I tell you that salads are the enemy?