Showing posts with label obesity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obesity. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Burn Fat Over Forty

If you are over forty years old and want to burn fat, you probably think you need to do more fat burning cardio workouts. However, the shocking truth is that you need to exercise less and do more intense workouts.

In this article, you’re going to discover the truth about burning fat over the age of 40. You’ll find out it’s a lot more important to do quality, not quantity, when it comes to your exercise sessions. So let’s get started by looking at why cardio fails for fat loss.

In a research study published in the prestigious journal, Obesity, researchers put men and women on an extreme cardio workout program. Each subject had to do one hour of cardio six days per week for one year. That’s a total of 300 hours of cardio.

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Monday, June 22, 2009

13 Tips to increase your metabolism


There are many discussions on how to burn fat and lose weight fast. But before talking about losing weight, boosting the metabolism rate is the first thing we should concern. Having a higher or faster metabolism rate has several advantages. Not only enables us to burn fat and lose weight fast with less amount of activity, but also allow our body process food much faster which prevents our body from having unwanted fats during workouts. In addition, metabolism rate allow body produces and consumes energy and calories to support life.
However, there are many factors that affect the metabolism such as age, gender, weight, hormonal changes, diet, genetics and the daily physical activities. Therefore, here is a list helping to increase the metabolism rate and burn fat fast.

1. Build up lean body mass-Metabolism decreases with our age. To improve the metabolism, exercising is one way to offset this problem. Lean muscle burns calories and the more we have the more calories we burn, even while resting. The amount of muscle we have is a strong determinant to the ability to burn calories and fat. Doing cardio exercises can boost our metabolism rate, and doing the resistance or weight training can help building muscle. Building muscle is one of the key ingredients in losing fats and it is more effective than any weight loss or diet plan. Besides doing the cardio exercises, you might first take some simple tasks as walking or going up and down stairs to burn off calories.

2. Eat breakfast daily-Many people do not eat breakfast. Most of them think that it might help losing weight if they consume as less meals as possible a day. However, they don’t realize that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Breakfast boost our metabolism rate and provides energy for the day. Alternately, the metabolism decreases if we don’t eat breakfast or eat later in the day. Haven’t you notices that those people who eat breakfasts are thinner than those don’t?

3. Don’t skip meals-Skipping meals is a wrong concept to most people who want to lose weight. What they realize that is skipping meals can take in less fat and weight. However, skipping meals not only slower the metabolism and lead to over eating, but it also causes gaining more fat when you have the next meal.

4. Have a well planning meal-It is much easy to lose weight if you have a daily or weekly meal plan. You may plan what, when, where, and serving size daily. Also, you might write down what you have eaten for every meal, and check whether it is as healthy as possible.

5. Have smaller portion meals-Consume 4 to 6 meals a day every 2 to 4 hours can increase our metabolism rate. It also gives body steady supply of energy and prevent over eating. You should better take in healthy meals rather than junk food.

6. Drink more water-Water is not only a lubricant of the body, it also flushes out of the body and keeps the kidneys operating at maximum efficiency. Lack of water causes the operation of body’s functions to decrease and lower the metabolism rate. We should drink at least 8 glasses of water a day.

7. Sleep well-Getting a good night’s sleep can boost the body operation and metabolism. According to some researches, it stated that people who do not get enough sleep tend to gain more weight. In addition, body use sleep to heal and muscles are regenerated.

8. Sugar is bad-Taking too much sugar might overload the body and causes many serious health problems such as obesity and diabetes. Sugar might transform into fat and stick onto our body if it is excess. The human body cannot deal with a large amount of refined sugar include in their meals.

9. Spicy food-Spicy food is a good friend to boost the metabolism rate and help losing weight because of its ingredients. Therefore, eating some spicy food is good for our body.

10. Green tea is good-As we all know that Japanese have a healthier body weight and live. Drinking green tea is one of the keys. Both green tea and coffee contain caffeine, however green tea can boost metabolism within any side effects to the body, and it can prevent the oxidation to skin.

11. Take higher energy foods including whole grain, beans, fruits, and vegetables-Taking these as our meals can provide more balanced energy to our body and assist us on losing weight. Also, it can improve the function of digestion.

12. Increase daily activities-Increase the daily activities not only resulting in higher level of metabolism rate, but also tend to burn more calories.

13. Reduce fat consumption-Increasing metabolism and losing fat is a simple equation. The question is that you must always burn more fat than your intake, so let’s start by reducing fatty and oily food. And reduce taking in sugar or over intake of carbohydrates.

These 13 tips seems very simple and easy to stick to, I guarantee you will see results in 3 weeks if you follow them faithfully. By doing the above, it might improve your metabolism rate. Don’t stress over each little thing but if you eat right and exercise, you should see a decrease in body fat. Most importantly, is having a healthier lifestyle and a much more energetic and happy you. Can't you?

Friday, June 19, 2009

Why pay attention to your body weight?



We all know that being obesity is no good for our appearance. It is even worse for our body’s internal systems and increase the risk for several diseases. From my last post, you have already found out your body mass index (BMI) which is based on your height and weight. Calculating the BMI to know whether your weight puts you at risk or you are at a healthy weight. Once again, do remember that elevated BMI alone is not an adequate measurement of your risk for diseases. According to the BMI, if your BMI is between 25 and 30, you are considered overweight. But you will be considered obese if your BMI is 30 or even greater. People who are obese have a much higher risk for many major diseases, such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes and more.


The followings are the diseases associated with obesity:

Reduce immune defenses – Excess weight may reduce immune defenses.

Heart Disease – Obesity increase the risk for Heart disease because increase the pressure in the body increase the pressure along the blood vessel walls. This pressure and added weight erode the blood vessel walls and make obese people to have heart attack.

High Blood Pressure (hypertension) - Overweight people have risk for gallbladder disease 2-3 times greater than the healthy weight people.

Type II Diabetes – The body overworks with breaking down the sugars using natural insulin. Because the weight is a great factor associated with type II diabetes, therefore obese people have greater risk for diabetes.

Gallbladder disease (gallstones) – Overweight people have risk for gallbladder disease 2-3 times greater than the healthy weight people.

Cancer – For example, breast cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, and pancreatic cancer. Excess body fat increases the cancer risk.

Metal Health - obesity is more likely to lead to problems with depression and other metal diseases. Some Doctors believed that obese people are more likely to develop chronic depression.

Low Fertility – Many Doctors have stated that higher BMI leads to a greater incidence of reproductive cancers, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), and other conditions that contribute to infertility. In addition, there is a link between infertile, obese women is some sort of reversible endocrine problem, such as a thyroid imbalance.

Other Health Problems from Obesity – For example, low IQ, eating disorders, and early puberty.

From the above, can you realize how serious problem is to obesity? If you have excess fat, let’s take action to control your body weight and get a healthy body weight to stay away from those diseases.

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