Weight Loss Guides

Body weight is an overall indicator of nutritional status of a person, but more important is knowing what percentage of that weight is fat, as this component in excess can harm health.

For a long time we thought the best way to burn fat was to perform aerobic exercises, however, a new mechanism involved in strength training also shows that lifting weights helps you lose body fat.

In the journal Cell Metabolism has published a study in Boston who said that when the muscle hypertrophy will reduce body mass and normalize many metabolic values that promote health.

The mechanism by which weight lifting helps you burn fat involves the type II muscle fibers, which contract, then the rate rapidly and are capable of lifting heavy loads for a limited time.

If these fibers are developed and muscle hypertrophy with strength training, you need to overexpress the gene encoding the protein Akt1.

This protein also contribute to the process of bodybuilding, involved in metabolic processes that reduce body fat by decreasing the size of fat cells and promote the metabolism of glucose and insulin. (more…)

Most of the slimming pills and drugs, either with or without a prescription, say they have a diuretic effect, moderating appetite and fat burning. But, with the exception of the drugs indicated in case of obesity, the rest is largely ineffective if not combined with diet or exercise, and even dangerous if taken without control. That is, if taken, must be pro-counter or as a complement to a weight loss plan seriously.

Excessive caloric intake and energy expenditure = little extra kilos. But if you struggle to reduce the amount of food you eat what you should do is to increase caloric expenditure. And this is precisely what they claim some of these miracle products that claim to speed up the metabolic activity to burn huge amounts of calories without moving the couch. False. There is no reliable study about it and not even scientifically possible: to burn calories without moving our body temperature would be similar to that of an oven … Follow a restricted diet and increasing physical activity are the only effective methods to burn calories.

To lose weight, consult your doctor, especially if you have severe obesity or hypertension problems. Of course, ask to take you before any product, as the majority does not fulfill the promises announced and can be dangerous. Escape from pills prescribed by doctors who promise to lose weight in no time and effortlessly, from those sold on TV or internet, the formulations and any other product of uncertain composition. Do not let them fool you: you can not lose in two days what has won in months or years, goes against all logic and nature.