Stretch marks are shiny lines on the skin that are caused by the stretching and weakening of elastic tissues as a result of excessive weight gain (obesity) and in many cases, pregnancy.
 They physically manifest in the five fatty reserves of the female body: Breasts, Buttocks, Belly, Thighs, and (upper) Back arms.
The five fatty reserves are sites the female Body Intelligence has chosen to hold excess fat and toxic waste in the female body. So just because a female has nice big breasts, hips, thighs, and a butt doesn't mean she's healthy. The substance of these body parts could very well be WASTE!
Stretch marks occur rampantly in the U.S. and especially amongst Black women/females (who are the most obese females in the U.S.)
They are more noticeable on darker colored females. However, a good deal of the American female collective is dealing with stretch marks.
CAUSES:
I gave it away above as to what causes stretch marks - EXCESS FAT and TOXIC WASTE and these things are the result of poor diet and lifestyle. What you eat or do not eat always plays a role in your health and affect you one way or another - good or bad!
I would have to say the biggest causative factors of excess fat produced in the female body is man-made SUGAR followed by DAIRY (processed cow snot/mucus/pus) followed by MEAT (processed animal cadaver) followed by REFINED STARCH (dry cleaner stiffening agent) and REFINED GRAINS (sticking glue agent).
Sugar is the greatest culprit in fat production in American females. The body converts sugar into fat and stores it for use for future energy production as the body burns fat for energy (when the body is functioning optimally). Things wouldn't be so bad if females consumed their sugar (for the right purposes - a nice, sweet treat engaged in every once and while) and then worked out (exercised) or became active (movement) because by doing such they would burn off the fat and quickly.
But today, the most sedentary females on the planet exist right here in the U.S., especially in Corporate America. Too many American women are leading and living sedentary lifestyles, sitting in high rise office buildings and typing away or answering phones while sitting on their asses for a good 6-7 hours a day (not including the lunch break, going to the ladies room, or walking to different departments of the firm, office, or building).
This is too sedentary and acutely deleterious. Excessive sitting hampers circulation throughout the body and especially in the rear end (buttock) area. Many of these big booty women walking around here developed that big backside while working on a corporate job. And we all know how much candy and junk is consumed on these corporate jobs. I used to work in corporate America and saw first hand! The lunch room and receptionist desk was always laced with enticing sugary treats (candy, chocolates, donuts, cookies, etc.), apparently to placate the boredom of these female employees but on a deeper level to give them the illusion of a nice little reward under the deeper purpose of putting "fuel" for guaranteed job productivity and alertness right before their very eyes.
The sugary and enticing treats are always free too! And you can also eat as much as you like. The other female workers will understand the fondness (addiction) for the sugary treats: "Girl, I can't get enough of these delicious See's candies!" "I can't stop eating them!" "Girl, ain't that the truth?"
The males may have dipped in the candy from to time, but it was never like or to the degree of the female employees who were damn near strung out on candy and other junk and apparently just to make it through the work day which I truly understand.
It's ironic that the job that gets in the way of many a nice relationship for many females who work in corporate America also provides them with the substance that makes up for not getting what they could and should be getting out of a relationship - SWEETNESS (in the form of love, care, and affection).
Metaphysically, sugar addiction or craving denotes a lack of sweetness in life. The person addicted to sugar is missing something in life and uses the sugar to supplement it but you can't supplement an emotion or a feeling with something physical. It doesn't work like this!
Some of the most beautiful and attractive females who have good-paying (but unfortunately, stressful) jobs, a nice home (house or town house, condo, or nice spacious apartment), nice automobile (Lexus, Infinity, BMW, Benz, etc.), nice fashionable wardrobe, and even a little money saved to the side (which is very rare though due to debt as females, esp. here in the U.S., are highly material and materially superficial and frivolous, loving to shop excessively (Shop-itis)) are the some of the loneliest women on the scene - women who are very desirous of a nice, loving relationship with a nice man, particularly the man of their dreams.
But because they are in many cases workaholics, they are too preoccupied for matters of the heart (romance, intimacy, love) and then when the sadness and depression or melancholy sits in, that's when the mendicant becomes SUGAR, snot cream (ice cream), chocolate, hardened candies, pastries, etc.
Do you see how sugar plays such a pivotal role in the lives of American females in general and health issues such as obesity, steatopygia, and stretch marks in particular?
Females must have love and if they don't get it from a man or out of a relationship they will get it from elsewhere, even if that elsewhere is synthetic in nature.
You see, nothing satisfies the hunger of the heart (and whole body for that matter) like LOVE!
Love is the greatest nutrient and nourishment. People who are genuinely in love don't think about eating to the degree of lonely people or people who are under the illusion that they lack love. I said "under the illusion of love" because they are unwisely looking for love first and foremost outside of "Self" (God).
 And what about fat? Well, you can't get fat without eating animal products or byproducts, i.e., MEAT and DAIRY!
Meat and dairy products contain fat, a very harmful fat. You cannot obtain fat from fruits, vegetables, seeds, nuts and whole grains. While true some of these things supra contain essential fatty acids but these essential fatty acids are not the same thing as fat derived from animals and their excreta.
You can only get fat from animals. Humans already have their own natural fat and when you take in additional fat and from a foreign creature, now you are really messing the body up and throwing things out of whack.
And to just think that there are people out there who really believe that avocados and nuts or eating too much of them, can cause you to become fat or gain weight. Totally preposterous! These people are more worried and concerned about avocados and nuts than they are and should be about meat and dairy products and JUNK FOOD! Yes, junk food!
KCAL News in Los Angeles aired a segment on exposing the junk food industry and showed how notable junk food companies purposely, knowingly, and willfully spray liquidized fat onto their products (i.e., chips, popcorn, etc.) which was absolutely mind boggling to me because there was simply no reason at all to spray fat on a product especially when Americans (especially the females) are afraid of fat (gaining it) and the fat does not enhance taste whatsoever.
They were purposely spraying fat (animal fat) on their products as part of their conspiracy to cause the American eater to blow up and become sick (especially obese) and have to seek medical attention and/or lose weight, which is a multi-billion dollar industry.
It was totally diabolical, insidious, and nefarious what these companies were doing to their products; but the companies know that the average American eater is swine and will eat any ole thing placed before them, and after all, everything is done under free will because these junk food companies don't go after the public and put a gun to peoples' head and force them to buy and eat their junk product; the public goes after the junk food products (with the help of commercial advertisements, I must admit).
Corporations have no duty under the law to be moral, ethical, and caring. In fact, the documentary "The Corporation" showed how corporations have the personality, behavior, and actions of a "psychopath."
Before I conclude this article, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the effect of synthetic female hormones in meat and dairy products and how they too play a role in people, mainly females, blowing up and thus playing a role in stretch marks.
The meat and dairy industries use synthetic growth hormones (bovine growth hormones) and steroids to cause their cattle to develop into maturity almost over night. These hormones are not removed from the animal before they are viciously and brutally slaughtered and neatly packed for their super-casket (oops, I meant "supermarket") wake.
Normally you think of a wake pertaining to a deceased human being lying in a coffin for people to walk by and look at. But no, animal wakes take place everyday at the "stupid market"; damn, I'm sorry! I meant, "super- market."
So let's not forget that hormones and steroids also play a role in stretch marks.
Clothing, tight clothing, also plays a role in stretch marks. Tight clothing hampers circulation and due to poor circulation, waste in the body cannot be flushed out of the body via the body's eliminative channels.
Tight bras affect the breasts, a fatty reserve region. Tight pants affect the thighs (and hips), also a fatty reserve region.
Let's keep it real, tight clothing is only for sex and sexuality purposes. Tight clothing highlights the body (especially the curvaceous and voluptuous female body), nothing more and nothing less.
Tight clothing enhances carnal desires because one of the greatest and most effective controlling mechanisms the Rulers use against the populace (masses) is sex.
Today, fashion is mostly for the promotion of sexual enticement. Fashion is totally frivolous in my opinion (and boy did I see this in fashion-themed movies such as "Mahogany," and "The Devil Wears Prada").
Fashion appeals to females because they are more of a victim (participants) of low self-image and esteem (especially toward the body and facial beauty) than men/males and they are quick to supplement what they deem a lacking in the area of body development and facial beauty. This is why the cosmetic (plastic) surgery and body enhancement industries exist and for the reasons Public Enemy rapped about in their latest rap song "Plastic Nation" from their "Rebirth of a Nation" LP.
How does enlarging your breasts give you self-esteem and positive self-image?
Self pertains to the Soul and the Soul doesn't benefit from silicon, a man-made material. You can't take silicon with you on the Other Side when you transition the flesh. You are not, nor will you, be judged by God on the size of your breasts. In fact, you will not be judged by God at all for that matter. It is we who do the judging, and in this life and lifetime, which is based upon a fraud and an illusion that we voluntary buy into.
Beauty is an illusion females in general fall for. Society places her worth in the form of illusions facial beauty and body development (embellishments: breasts, hips, thighs, buttock, legs, etc.). And of course society is run by males, White males to be exact.
People, mainly females are harming themselves under the illusion of beauty and what is beauty really for pertaining to females? Let's keep it real! ANSWER: to find a man and end up on their back getting sexually pounded (like in the scenes from the movies "Carlito's Way, "Colors", and "American Beauty").
Like an old school homey once told me: "Women get all fly (slang term for "beautiful" or "fine") getting their hair and nails done just to end up on their backs getting fucked by some dude. Elements of truth rings true here in my opinion based upon my experience.
METAPHYSICAL CAUSES
In esoteric circles, we know "As above, so below" and "as within, so without." Metaphysically, stretch marks denote the need to be more FLEXIBLE and LESS RIGID in your dealings with other people. During pregnancy, stretch marks may denote imposition of rigid expectations by the expecting mother upon herself.
I teach that stretch marks and obesity go hand in hand. Stretch marks are a byproduct of obesity or excessive weight gain. There is also a metaphysical reason for obesity or excessive weight gain of which I'll cover in deep detail in my article entitled "Living Large."
Physical body weight manifests an emotional, mental, spiritual and psychological weight or burden many women/females place on themselves by trying to be superwoman (or having to be Superwoman) and do it all, including things a man should be doing.
The Superwoman Syndrome (which leads to disease), which mostly affect African-American females, eventually causes serious social, emotional, psychological, mental, and spiritual "weights" (burdens) to befall a woman. When life becomes too hard (difficult) from trying to be a man and woman, or father and mother, simultaneously, the desire for sweetness in life kicks in and that's where the sugar addiction enhances (if it's already there). When you begin to feel like shit you will begin to eat "shit" (junk) and this is where that nice body and face begins to be compromised. The Matrix is winning easy handedly now! There's now no resistance. Subconsciously, you throw in the towel. She now recognizes life is too hard (difficult) on her own. She really turns to her weak faith in God now.
I will end here because this subject is the theme of my article "Strong Black Woman" and "Superwoman Syndrome." However, I wanted to offer you an appetizer on the subject.
REMEDIES
The greatest remedy for stretch marks is removing toxic waste and excess fat by detoxifying the body, a la Dherbs.Com Full Body Detox followed by our Weight Release Cleanse and Regimen.
It's not about weight loss, but release of waste! After all, weight is waste in most people.
Stretch marks on the belly and buttocks means you really need to work on your colon - keeping it cleansed and optimally functioning.
 Good colon herbs include Senna leaves and pods, Cascara Sagrada, Bilwa, Rhubarb, Trifala, Buckthorn, and Aloe Vera resin.
Dherbs.Com colon formulas include Colon Formula, Bowel Mover, Sen-Fen Formula, and Intestinal Janitor.
To help the elasticity of the skin, pour warm Cocoa Butter, African Shea Butter or Coconut Oil on to the problem area skin and deeply rub into the skin in a circular motion for a few minutes and then start GENTLY rubbing the skin with a loofah brush in a circular motion for a few minutes. The heat caused by the rubbing-induced friction will cause the waste to dissolve just like water when it becomes steam.
Start bathing in hot water, 1-2 boxes of Sea Salt, essential oils of Juniper Berry, Celery Seed, Grapefruit Peel, and Fennel Seed (2-3 drops per oil), and sea weed strips (available from good health food stores). You can actually lose a few inches in this kind of bath. Health spas are using sea weed body wraps with great results today.
Start getting lymphatic massage performed every chance you get (or can afford). This type of massage will move the lymph fluids and help the body to dump off toxins and stored waste.
Stop wearing tight clothing! Let your body breathe and let your body function optimally, especially your circulation. Think about going back to dresses and giving blue jeans back to men (at least 5-6 days out of the week). Dresses carry a feminine energy whereas pants carry a masculine energy. Fashion has impaired female health just as much as diet.
Modify your diet! Stop eating so much meat, dairy, refined grains and starches. In fact, you'd be wise to eventually give them all up and become vegan. But only do so if and when you're ready and have the desire to do so.
Cut out all the junk foods. Or at least eat "healthier" junk foods as it may be difficult for most junk food junkies to kick the habit of eating junk.
Thank you for reading!
This article is compliments of www.Dherbs.com and Djehuty Ma'at-Ra, the people's herbalist.
Addition articles by the author can be found @ www.dherbs.com (Articles).
Djehuty Ma'at-Ra is an herbalist, metaphysician, writer (Scribe), health consultant, researcher, spiritual counselor, inspirational-motivational speaker, and jurisperitus. |
