How to Preserve & Increase Your Metabolism and Burn the Fat!
By Stacey Zimmerman
Most diet programs and weight loss products would have you believe that you can lose weight healthily. However, nothing can be farther from truth than losing weight with these OTC products without having any affect on your metabolism. These so-called healthy weight loss products wreck havoc on your metabolism while you are following their routine. They contain unscientific and unproven contents that may have some beneficial qualities for the health of humans but certainly have horrendous side effects in terms of disturbed metabolism and resultant damage to the vital body organs.
In fact, several diet programs have resulted in breaking down of muscles and slowing down of metabolism, which if not addressed immediately, can lead to life-threatening repercussions. That's why doctors always recommend to stay from using any products from your nearest store in order to lose weight. Instead, they prescribe 3-pronged strategy for healthy weight loss - cardio exercise; regular, healthy, and balanced diet; and living a physically active lifestyle.
On the contrary, the aim of weight loss is to maximize the metabolism in order to make the functioning of all the vital organs in harmony for maximum benefits to the body. These diet programs will make you undergo strictest diet regimes and in the name of supplements, they'll just give you headaches, nausea, constipation, bloated feeling, etc. - all signs of disturbed metabolism. This is because the body lacks proper nutrition, which even these diet programs fail to provide.
After the above mentioned observations, we can safely conclude that losing fat without disturbing metabolism should be the target of every weight loss regimen. In fact, it'd be better if metabolism can be improved from its present situation. And the news is that all this is possible without resorting to any cosmetic product or powder or pills.
YES! This piece of news should come as a big relief for all those who are fed up with the diet programs and looking for natural mode of losing weight without causing any damage to their metabolism. If you search around the Internet, you'll find out about the ways of losing fat and preserving and speeding up the metabolism through healthier means. However, be warned! Internet is full of booby traps to lure you to some product or other. But if you are lucky enough to grab an informational book or resource, you are on your way to success.
If you can know the health secrets of famous personalities, your aim of losing fat healthily gets easier. Along with the health secrets, you should also learn some motivational techniques employed by these personalities to keep their spirits up. The bottom line is that most of us can be healthy and lose fat in the most natural way. If man can conquer Everest, then with some discipline in our lives, can we not beat the fat from our lives? We surely can and we definitely should!
Stace Zimmerman is the author of many health and fitness related articles, and runs numerous websites on nutrition and fitness. Check out his site Burn The Fat for more exciting information on healthy fat burning and weight loss. Also be sure to check out his burnthefat review.
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How to Beat a Slow Metabolism
Nothing seems to work for you anymore and you've tried it all - high carbs, low carbs, fat burners, low calories, session after session of mind-numbing cardio. That flab isn't going anywhere.
Frustrating, isn't it? It's like a brick wall standing in your way, isn't it?
Your problem may be a damaged metabolism--a very real phenomenon--caused by prolonged dieting. I know that may sound scary, but it's not as bad as some people make it out to be. With all the extremely low-calorie eating and hours of cardio that some people do day in and day out, it's actually very commonplace. Rest assured, you're not alone.
And I've got some good news for you. There's a pretty simple way to repair your sluggish metabolism. Contrary to popular--albeit ill-informed--opinion, metabolic "damage" is not permanent and metabolism does not shut off. Yes, it slows down, but this is actually a normal and expected response when you're eating sub-maintenance calories.
There is a physiologically-based adaptive response that the body undergoes when eating in a caloric deficit. The hormones that govern metabolic rate and fat loss respond in a way that serves to preserve bodyfat. And the effect is magnified the leaner you get (which is often associated with the longer you're trying to lose fat). End result? Slower, if not altogether stalled, fat loss. No matter how good your nutritional program, if you're eating in a caloric deficit, your metabolism will attempt to adjust accordingly.
Ok, enough of the whys. How do we get that metabolism humming again? First off, you need to lose the short term thinking and adopt a longer term mindset. This is critical.
Even though this might go against 'common wisdom', you're going to have to eat more, at least for a little while. Yes, you read that right – eat more, not less. You might find it hard to wrap your head around this concept, but trust me, it's necessary. However, just ramping right up to an appropriate caloric intake isn't necessarily the right approach for everyone. There is more than one way to approach the repair but I'd suggest you do it in steps - systematic and regular increases. This has the benefit of one, allowing you to gradually get used to eating more food, two, potentially preventing some fat regain, and three, maybe even causing some fat loss. So one approach is to determine how much you're eating on an average day and then take your present intake and just add 10-20% to it every few days until you hit maintenance calories.
Now that you've decided to take control of your metabolism and have adjusted your calories to maintenance levels, you want to maintain this level of calories for at least two weeks. Then once things are humming along again, you can return to a caloric deficit. Might you gain some weight at maintenance? Maybe, but some will surely be water, muscle glycogen, etc. Basically nothing to worry about – easy come, easy go. Again, long term versus short term thinking. You need to correct the problem before you can move past it. Two weeks at maintenance will make further fat loss much more likely when you return to your caloric deficit. Chances are you'll start feeling a lot better though, and you'll have some great workouts.
There are many great, yet underused fat-loss strategies out there. Planned periods at maintenance eating can be found near the top of that list. Remember, the purpose of the two weeks at maintenance calories isn't to maintain; it's to make the subsequent calorie deficit more effective at fat loss. Think of it as a 'resetting of the system'. Then you hit your deficit again and presto, more fat loss.
With a slow metabolism you can generally assume somewhere in the neighbourhood of 14x bodyweight is going to approximate maintenance calories. It might even be a bit lower depending on how severe your caloric deficit has been and for how long, but keep in mind that metabolism is only going to slow so much. It doesn't shut off. These maintenance numbers are an approximation, but so are the more complicated equations that can be used to determine caloric requirements.
After the two weeks at maintenance are up, you return to your caloric deficit. However, this time take a moderate approach and shoot for approximately 12x bodyweight in calories. If you're female and a bit lighter in bodyweight to begin with, you might need to start lower in order to create a sufficient fat-burning caloric deficit. Stay there for a couple weeks, assess your progress, and make adjustments as needed. If you're getting leaner and your measurements have decreased, stay there. If you're not, try decreasing calories by another 10% and reassess again two weeks later.
Remember, these caloric recommendations are just approximations; they're starting points. Everyone is a bit different, so the key to long term success is being able to trouble shoot your program. A quick closing note on that very topic. You need to stay on top of your program. If what you're doing is not generating the desired fat-loss results, working harder at that same ineffective plan isn't magically going to start working. If it's broken, fix it. If your program is not netting you any fat loss, you need to make some adjustments to your program. Don't keep spinning your wheels doing something that is no longer working for you. Getting the results you're after? Stay the course. Not getting the results you're after? Make changes.
There is no reason to continually suffer the effects poor prior fat-loss efforts have had on your metabolism. There is no reason you should have to suffer a permanent sentence of stalled fat loss. Planned periods at maintenance calories are the key. However, there's more to this strategy than simply repairing a slow metabolism. They can and should be used periodically throughout your fat-loss phase to promote continue fat loss. A periodic resetting of the system will go a long way to maintaining healthy metabolism and and continued fat loss.
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Erik Ledin, B.Kin, CSCS, CISSN, is the President of Lean Bodies Consulting Inc., an online nutritional consulting firm which specializes in physique transformation, fat loss, nutrition and contest prep. He can be reached at www.leanbodiesconsulting.com
Metabolism Boosting Four Biggest Myths
The Four Biggest Myths Of Boosting Your Metabolism.
Myth #2: Drop Caloric Intake
1. Diet Pills--The problem here is that many makers of diet pills offer claims that simply aren’t realistic; and if you read the fine-print of most of these advertisements, you’ll see that they really are too good to be true. Little notes like the claims made in this advertisement are not typical and should be enough of a wake-up call to realize that there’s more to the story.
In some cases, diet pills can help boost metabolism temporarily. This, however, can be risky and generally should not be done without a doctor’s ok. Unfortunately, people can become somewhat addicted to diet pills, and this can lead to disaster.
2. Drop Your Caloric Intake--The thing to remember is that the body’s ability to lose weight is not controlled by calories. Calories are the input. The real control mechanism is that famous concept that you’ve become very familiar with: metabolism.
So with that being said, cutting down your caloric intake to, say, 1000 calories a day isn’t necessarily going to help you lose weight; because it doesn’t necessarily change your metabolism.
3. Low Intensity Workouts--It’s fair to say that any exercise is better than no exercise. So if you lead a sedentary lifestyle, then even walking around your block for 10 minutes a day is going to do something positive for your body and its metabolism.
Low intensity workouts simply don’t lead to a faster metabolism; they can’t. Remember, metabolism is a process.
If you don’t achieve a high-intensity workout, your body can’t tap into itself to achieve catabolism; it won’t need to.
4. Too Much Focus--Speeding up your metabolism and achieving your weight loss goals involves a certain degree of focus; after all, there are a lot of things competing for your attention (including those delicious desserts!), and you certainly need to be able to keep your eye on the goal in order to maintain your program.
Yet sometimes too much focus can be a bad thing; and some dieters understand this all too well. Remember: speeding up your metabolism is a holistic effort that includes exercise, lifestyle, and diet changes.
Focusing on only one of these at the expense of the others (either one or both) can be detrimental. In fact, in some cases, it can be counter-productive.
Paul Webb
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Are You in Danger from Metabolic Syndrome X?
Syndrome X is actually called Metabolic Syndrome X. This was discovered over 10 years ago, but scientists have been looking for this for 100 years.
What does it mean? Metabolic has to do with metabolism, the way our body uses energy. Syndrome means many diseases involved. X means "we don't know". So it's basically a bunch of diseases that relate to your metabolism that scientists don't know enough about. The cause of Syndrome X is now being discovered and determined.
In Syndrome X, the blood has high levels of sugar, but unlike diabetes, there is lots of insulin to process the sugar, but the sugar (food) is not getting in the cells to provide energy. You are tired.
A sign of having this Syndrome X would be a person who needs to eat sugar, carbohydrates, and caffeine to keep going throughout the day. They get an energy boost, which falls in an hour, and then they need another boost and another boost throughout the day.
Syndrome X is only found in industrialized countries and cities. It started when white flour and sugar came along with the industrial revolution in the 1800's. It got much worse when companies started using fructose to sweeten foods. It is 20 times sweeter than glucose (sugar). Your body can't handle all this sugar.
It is estimated that 99% of women have Syndrome X. Even if that statistic is high, that still means a lot of women have Syndrome X.
So, what's happening in the body with this Syndrome X? Let's say you eat an apple. Your body only absorbs 20% of the sugar contained in that apple. The same goes for corn on the cob. Bananas are higher at 40%. Watermelon is 10%. Eating these whole foods does not produce a huge amount of sugar (carbohydrates) for your body to deal with. The body makes a little insulin to go with the glucose which then goes into the liver. Then the glucose (energy) is sent to the cells along with insulin, which helps the sugar (energy) get into the cell.
Now, let's look at what happens when you eat white flour, sugar, or fructose (high fructose corn syrup, like the sugar in soft drinks).
A note to make here: Most all bread available is based on 'white flour'. Even wheat bread is made from 'white flour'. Bread made from flour that has been truly stone ground the old fashioned way is the only time you get away from 'white flour'. Stone ground flour will spoil in a week whereas processed flour will keep for years. That's why the industrialized societies changed to processed flour, but it has hurt our health. And the adverse effects are getting worse with each generation.
When your stomach sees flour or sugar coming, it tells the pancreas to make lots of insulin to deal with the large amounts of glucose from white flour (or sugar or fructose). This huge amount of sugar (because 100% is able to be absorbed) goes into the liver, which monitors all food. The liver tastes the blood and decides that it is too sweet, so it turns the sugar into fat, which then goes into the bloodstream.
This fat is the triglycerides in your blood. It is sugar converted to fat. White blood cells then gobble up this fat (because there's too much of it) and store it in your belly, hips, everywhere.
This fat, along with a second type produced (which cannot be broken down, the body can't burn it), will also cover and coat a cell. This covering of fat over the outside of a cell prevents food/glucose from getting into the cell to provide energy.
So, our cells aren't getting enough energy and we have to eat more sweets to give us a quick boost, causing the pancreas to secrete more insulin. I believe this constant secreting of insulin is what wears out the pancreas and gives people the tendency to get Type II Diabetes.
It's estimated that 70-90% of people have high triglycerides. This high blood sugar, turned into high fat by the liver, causes 70% of modern diseases.
Fat in the arteries leads to strokes and heart disease. Fatty deposits on the brain can lead to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Multiple Sclerosis. DNA damage can lead to auto-immune diseases while unchecked cell growth in the body can lead to cancer.
When the liver breaks down fructose Very Low Density Lipoprotein (VLDL) is produced. This converts to Palmitic Acid, which goes inside the cell.
But when Palmitic Acid is in the cell it then converts to Salimide. This Salimide goes into the DNA and attacks it, causing a mutation. These mutations can make a person prone to certain types of cancer. They can also be the source of auto-immune diseases where the body attacks its own cells because it doesn't recognize them, due to the DNA damage.
These mutations also get passed on to our kids. This is why our children's health is not going to be as good as was our parent's health, unless we change our ways and teach our children how to live healthier lives.
So, basically, sugar converted to fat is damaging the genes in our DNA.
It will take 2-3 generations of improved attention to health and nutrition to fully correct damaged genes, but it is possible.
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Anita Murray is a Professional Health Coach, Nutritional Consultant, and Founding Editor/Owner of FibromyalgiaHope.com. For information on getting away from your sugar and caffeine cravings, join Anita’s Interactive E-course, where you will learn about 8 important strategies designed to reverse your declining health and move your toward the health you deserve.
How Many Calories Are Burnt During Exercise?
By: Jaks Lloyd
You have heard and read about it so many times; your doctor has told you, you hear it on television and read it in every magazine you pick up: EXERCISE IS GOOD FOR YOU.
You must have drawn the conclusion that exercising can help you to lose those unwanted pounds and tighten up your wobbly bits.
But how does it work?
All depends on metabolism. Why? The answer is simple. Because metabolism is the process by which your body makes use of the food you eat in order to provide the necessary quantity of energy to your body.
There are three ways to spend your energy daily: basic needs, food processing and physical activity.
Not only an activity can burn calories, but also the moments when your body is passive, at rest. Even then there exist biochemical processes occurring that require energy to drive them.
Calorie metabolism provides the energy for basic bodily needs such as breathing, blood circulation and cellular growth and repair.
The most intense process of your body is food digestion. The digestive processes are maintained with almost ten percent of the calories you eat each day.
More than that, the last but not least, the daily physical activities, such as running, swimming or walking, also require calories.
Unlike the basic, digestive needs of your body, the physical activity you do depends only on your choices. If you want to burn more calories and lose weight, you need to exercise hard.
The amount of calories you burn while exercising depends on your age, sex and body composition.
Older people tend to have a slower metabolism and also less muscle , which is one of the most "active" calorie-burning tissues.
Women burn less calories than men when performing equivalent exercise, also because men tend to have more muscle mass.
People with bigger weight can burn calories at a higher rate than smaller people, because their bodies require more energy for movements.
Let's take for example a person with a weight of 130 pounds, racing a bicycle at more than 20 miles/hour would burn 944 calories an hour.
For the same amount of exercise, a person who has a weight of 155 pounds would burn 1125 calories/hour.
The number of calories you burn is also influenced by the intensity with which you exercise – in general the harder the exercise, the more calories burnt.
Running at 5mph burns 472 calories per hour, whereas at 11mph you can burn 1062 calories per hour.
High impact aerobics also burns more calories than a lower impact workout (413 calories versus 295 calories/hour).
It is said that sports that require intermittent running, such as:
basketball (472 calories/hour), tennis (472 calories/hour), football (531 calories/hour), soccer (590 calories/hour)
give you the ability to burn more calories than less active sports such as:
golf (236 calories/hour), cricket (295 calories/hour).
Never try to find excuses for not doing housework, because the household chores are a good way to lose some calories fast and easy, without even thinking about them:
Cleaning your house will burn 207 calories/hour, while carrying heavy loads around the garden can burn up to 472 calories/hour. Painting or plastering your home burns about 266 calories/hour; also scrubbing a dirty floor will make you lose calories - about 325 calories/hour.
Only 30 minutes spent on engaging in physical activity each day, can help you burn calories, beat the battle of the bulge and gain fitness.
Go for it!
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Read More......Increase Metabolism with the Help of Fat Burners
by Ketty Johnson
Many people desire to enhance their metabolism so they can burn fat more successfully. Metabolism is the absolute set of chemical reactions that take place in living cells. These processes are the core of life, allowing cells to raise and reproduce, by keeping their structures, and act in response to their environments. Metabolism is mostly separated into two categories. Catabolism yields energy, an example being the breakdown of food in cellular respiration. Anabolism, on the other hand, uses this energy to create components of cells such as proteins and nucleic acids.
The prime reason that people are get overweight is because their BMR basal metabolic rate (basal metabolic rate) is lower than it should be. BMR is the rate at which our body burns calories to carry out its normal functions of digestion, breathing, circulation etc. Our body needs a minimum number of 1500 to 2000 calories a day to carry out its normal functions. When it does not get its daily requirement it slows down the metabolic rate. This means that they burn lesser calories in a day. That's why at over a period of months, this adds up to stored fat.
To counter with such situation we have take foods which have properties of burning calories like fat burning foods. This foods burn more calories than the calorie content of the foods itself. These fat burning foods or so called negative calorie foods are natural plant foods. Like fruits which is rich in vitamin C which are like limes, lemons, oranges, grapefruit and tangerines have fat burning properties. If you eat these fat burning foods along with some exercise, it will help to boost your metabolism and burn calories.
For fast results we can take some fat burner supplement which is proven by several studies that it is quite effective because Fat burners is help to raise your metabolism so you burn fat faster. Fat burners are essentially medicine which carries certain herbal ingredients such as Ephedra, HCA, Chitosan and Pyruvate, all of which claim to either enhance energy, raise your metabolism and/or suppress your appetite.
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Find Out How To Lose 100 Pounds Easily Without Weight Loss Pills And Potions
by: Rika Susan
You are staring at your umpteenth bland plate of salad or bowl of cabbage soup, while hubby and the kids tuck greedily into steaming, mouth-watering dinners. Does this sound familiar? How about the frustration of seeing the pounds you have just lost, reappearing overnight accompanied by a bunch of unwelcome friends? What if you could discover how to lose 100 pounds in one year and keep it off forever, without once taking a peek at a diet book or popping a weight loss pill? These 9 tips are all you need for a running start.
1. Learning The Right Moves
Every extra bit of activity helps you to lose weight and revs up your metabolism. Get going now! You don't necessarily need an expensive gym membership, an elliptical cross trainer or a stair climber. Why not try a dancing, yoga or pilates class? Or what about a swimming session, a brisk walk or a fun bicycle ride? Any activity is acceptable. Just choose something you will enjoy doing, otherwise you will soon be coming up with excuses to skip it. Exercise for half an hour daily, five times a week and you will be burning roughly 98,800 calories extra every year (around 380 calories per day). The calories burned will vary according to your body weight, the workout you opt for, and the level of intensity. This vital step will make up to 28 pounds disappear over a period of a year.
2. Stop Sneaking Sugar
Are you dumping teaspoon after teaspoon of sugar into your beverages without thinking? By reducing your sugar intake by one teaspoon in three cups of tea or coffee per day, you will save 75 calories daily. This adds up to 27,375 calories every year, or around 8 pounds of body weight. Your taste buds will soon adjust. In fact, within a week or two, you will begin to detest overly sweet tea and coffee.
3. Hop From Whole Milk To Skim Milk
While on the subject of tea and coffee: Did you know that whole milk has a fat content of 4%, whereas skim milk comes with less than 0.5% fat? This reduces one cup of skim milk's calorie count to 86, compared to whole milk's 149 calories. Switching to a cup of skim milk a day will reduce your calorie intake with 60 per day. In one year, this is a further 22,000 unnecessary calories. This translates into 6 pounds weight-wise.
4. Feast On Fat-Free Tubs Rather Than Full-Fat Yogurt
Why not exchange the 6 ounces of full-fat yogurt for 6 ounces of the fat-free variation? This will take away another 100 calories every single day, without a noticeable change in taste. Taken over a year, the count is a whopping 36,500 calories. There goes yet another 10 pounds of flab.
5. Minimize The Mayonnaise
You don't have to cut this delicacy out completely. Just be somewhat less generous with it. If you can reduce your daily intake by 1 tablespoon, you will bank another 90 calories a day, or an astonishing 32,800 calories per year. Who's game for dropping another 9 pounds of body weight? All this while you still indulge in your regular, healthy recipes.
6. Turn Wine Into Water
Say no to 4 fluid ounces or roughly 120 milliliters of wine a day, and you will reduce your diet and nutrition plan's calories by 100 a day. Tot these up and you reach 36,500 calories per year. That is another fairly easy to maintain 10 pounds in one year. Learn to sip water instead.
7. Say No To Sugar-Laden Soda
While on the subject of beverages, you may want to take a look at those cans of sweetened soda guzzled down without a thought. A single 12 ounce (355ml) serving daily comes at a yearly calorie cost of 65,700! Breaking this habit will take care of 18 pounds of flab and fat. In fact, these numbers are likely to be even better, as many servings these days are more in the 20 ounce or 42 ounce region. Measure out 250 cups of sugar, and you will see what you or your kids gulp down in a year. Is that a scary thought, or what?
In addition to the weight you will lose, your digestive system is likely to function more efficiently. You will also have a less acidic body, making your insides less of a breeding ground for ailments. Your wellbeing will improve drastically once your body's PH gets into a more normal range. You will also support your dentist less regularly. Don't worry, you won't die of thirst. How about drinking some ordinary water, fresh veggie juice, or one of the refreshing, unsweetened iced teas on the market? You body will see this as much needed health news.
8. Have A Spread With Low-Sugar Jam
Another simple to implement change is to swop your twice-a-day two teaspoons of sweetened jam or preserves for one of the tasty low-sugar alternatives. This trims another 64 calories a day, or 23,360 calories yearly. Do you choose a jam jar body, or 7 pounds less in the flab department?
9. Opt For Popcorn Pleasure
Every time you crunch through one small bag (1 ounce or 28 grams) of potato chips, you add 150 calories, with loads of fat and no fibre. In contrast, 1 cup of air popped Sour Cream & Chives popcorn is fibre-rich and fat-free and weighs in at only 50 calories. This is another massive saving of 100 calories. If this swop happens just 3 times a week, you have taken off 15,600 calories in a year, or 4,5 pounds.
None of these changes are huge, but the results can be life-changing. Best of all, they can be sustained without hardship. By taking a look at what you eat, you should be able to dream up at least another 10 tips to cut calories. By doing so, you will be creating your own easy-to-manage weight loss diet plan. You will also be setting a sensible example for your kids, demonstrating that the diet-treadmill isn't the one they should be trying out.
So, stop doing the diet. Just do the math. Implement a few smart, sensible choices and you will have a workable, long-term weight loss plan.
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Exercise Bikes - Good Option for Workout
By Sharon Mirin
Although we pride over the fact that human is the most developed of all species, we have to admit that we are also very lazy. Most of the time we blame our working environment for making our lifestyle so hectic, but in reality most of us are just too lazy to walk that extra mile or exercise. We have bad food habits, relying mostly on junk food. It is true that the job situation demands such a lifestyle, but can’t we be more responsible towards our own health?
People often find it impossible to jog or run outside in the parks. Maybe the lack of empty spaces and time constraints are the reasons for this. Therefore, the next option is to perform the same exercises in the closed doors. Bicycles are known not only as a means to travel but also for its good effect on health.
This feature, that bicycles are good for health is used in exercise bikes. Exercise bikes are used for workout of the whole body. They resemble an ordinary bicycle and perform the same function, only difference being that they are stationary. Even normal bicycles can be used as a stationary machine if they are placed on rollers or trainers.
How it works?
An exercise bike is provided with a seat where you can sit jus as in a normal bicycle. There are two pedals provided with a chain. You have to keep your feet on the pedals and start the circular motion. You can increase or decrease the resistance of the pedals at your will. The resistance is the key to developing muscle strength in the hips, calf and legs. Magnets, as well as friction are used to increase the resistance. Different people are advised to use different levels of resistance based on the training they need.
Benefits
In most multi-gyms, exercise bikes are must. They are very good for body “warm-up” or toning the body before one starts hardcore fitness training.
Exercise bikes help to tone up the muscles in the hips and in the calf region of the legs. Changing resistance levels help to build a better impact on the muscles. People who are suffering from obesity are generally advised to use exercise bikes. It helps to increase body metabolism and thus excess calories and fats are used up.
Exercise bikes also give a very good cardiovascular workout. In medical clinics and rehabilitation centers, patients are advised to workout on these bikes.
These are also low-impact machines. Low impact means that using these machines will not affect the bones of the body. Unlike in a treadmill where you have to run, jog or brisk walk, here you do not have to exert that much pressure on your feet. As a result, there is little possibility of your bones being jarred and in turn sustain damage.
Balancing is also easier in exercise bikes. It is very unlikely that a person on an exercise bike will lose balance. Even if he does, he will not be injured, unlike in a treadmill The new generation bikes provide recumbent seats. Prolong use in normal seats can damage the bones in the spinal chord. Besides, it can cause neck pain. Recumbent seats are thus more comfortable to be used.
So, what are you waiting for? Stop complaining about busy work schedule, stop cribbing over lack of parks, hit an exercise bike now and get a completely toned up body.
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How to Prevent, Test & Treat Your Possible Niacin Toxicity & Deficiency
By: Lena Butler
Niacin is an essential component of the human body and it works by aiding in the process of energy metabolism in all living cells and most importantly works to assist in DNA repair. It even has a role in how certain hormones are produced in the adrenal glands, particularly those involved with the body’s stress response.
Niacin, which is also known as Vitamin B3, is very important to the general chemistry of the human body. So if the levels of this substance are thrown in either direction, meaning you have either too much or too little niacin in your system, the result could be devastating.
People who take niacin supplements as treatment for other conditions are particularly at risk for developing niacin toxicity. That is why they have to be especially cautious in monitoring their bodies’ signs and signals.
The same goes for people with a niacin deficiency. While rare in developed countries, it is still possible for a person to have a deficiency of this substance for one reason or another. If left untreated, niacin deficiency can lead to permanent damage of internal organs and cause memory loss, confusion and eventually mental decline or dementia. These are all very serious things, which makes it all the more important you seek treatment at the very first moment you think you may have a problem.
But how can you tell if you have a problem with your niacin levels? Symptoms only begin to present themselves when damage is being done. So what is the solution? Prevention is the key. And you can prevent your niacin levels from dropping super low or skyrocketing super high by knowing where they are at all times. You can do this by using an at home test called a wellness panel.
A wellness panel is easy to use and can detect the levels of different substances at one time. Once you get your results back from the lab you will know where your niacin levels stand. If there is any cause for concern, set up an appointment with your doctor and he or she will take it from there.
By being proactive and taking action before anything gets out of hand, you ensure your health and avoid serious complications later down the line. That is the real treatment here.
This Article is written by Lena Butler, the author of Home Testing Blog – Testing It Up, a longer version of this article is located at Testing Niacin Toxicity & Deficiency and a similar article by Lena is the Signs and Symptoms of Niacin Toxicity & Deficiency.
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Read More......Free List of Fat Burning Foods
This free list of fat burning foods will help you make the right choices to burn off more fat than you ingest by eating them. The fat burning secret to losing weight is to eat and drink until you are full and satisfied, choosing foods that burn more calories than you consume. This helps your body burn up the excessive stored fat.
This free list of fat burning foods contains mostly fruit and vegetables and if you compare it to other lists you will notice a definite trend. If you eat these fat burning foods and add a good exercise workout program to it you will increase your metabolism and burn calories at a faster rate even several hours after your exercise is done.
apples
apricots
artichokes
asparagus
beets
blackberries
blueberries
broccoli
Brussels sprouts
cabbage
cantaloupe
carrots
cauliflower
celery
cherries
chives
cod
corn
crabs
cranberries
cucumbers
eggplant
flounder
garlic
grapefruit
grapes
green beans
honeydew
kale
leeks
lemons
lettuce
limes
lobster
mangoes
mushrooms
nectarines
okra
onions
oranges
papaya
parsley
peaches
pears
peas
peppers
pineapple
prunes
pumpkin
radishes
raspberries
red cabbage
sauerkraut
scallions
spinach
squash
strawberries
string beans
tangerines
tomatoes
turnips
watermelon
A recent report from Michael Zemel, Professor of Nutrition and Medicine at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville reports, "If you compare a dairy-rich versus a dairy-poor diet you can nearly double the rate of weight and fat loss with the same level of calorie restriction." It states that the calcium in dairy products can boost weight loss by increasing fat breakdown in fat cells. Therefore, dairy products could be termed as fat burning foods. These include milk, cheese and yogurt and might be considered a fat burning secret.
The best way to approach fat burning food is to start by implementing a sensible eating plan with the help of this free list of fat burning foods and begin an exercise workout program that you enjoy and will stick with.
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How to Get Off of a Weight Loss Plateau
By: Alien
So you’ve put together a weight loss plan and it’s working exactly as you expected. OK, it’s hard to stick to a diet, but with such great results, you’re sure it will be no time until you are lithe and slender once again. But then all of a sudden – disaster! Your weight loss comes to a screeching halt, your scale seems stuck on the same number, you may even gain a few pounds. You’ve hit a weight loss plateau.
To understand weight loss plateaus, think about your weight loss calculator: you enter your current weight, height, and gender, and it tells you how many calories you need to maintain your current weight. You reduce your calories below that amount, and you start to lose pounds. But now that you’ve lost a few pounds, put your information into that weight loss calculator, and you’ll see that the calories you need to maintain your current weight are much less than they were at the start – probably about what you are eating right now. That’s why the weight loss plateau has struck.
To look at it another way, imagine that you carry a ten-pound bag full of rocks with you wherever you go. Any exercise you do is going to be more strenuous, and it’s going to burn more calories. If you decide to stop carrying that bag of rocks around, your exercise will be less effective. The ten extra pounds of weight that you were carrying around with you act the same way.
So how do you get past a weight loss plateau and start losing weight once again? The biggest mistake that people make is to try to cut calories even more. That puts the body into starvation mode, and deprives you of the energy that you really need in this critical time. The best suggestions for moving beyond a weight loss plateau are:
* Exercise more. Keep your metabolism up and burn more calories by adding extra exercise to your weight loss regime.
* Build more muscle mass. Muscle is great for burning calories at rest and while exercising. Add weight or resistance training to your exercise regime to build up those muscles.
* Shake Up Your Eating Regime. Sometimes you can break your body out of a weight loss plateau by changing how you eat while keeping your total number of weekly calories the same. Eat fewer calories on one day and more the next (while sticking to healthy foods, of course). Add more proteins while cutting back on the carbs, or eat more meals per day, but make them smaller.
* Emphasize Complex Carbs. Now more than ever, you need to focus on replacing refined flours and sugars with complex carbohydrates like brown rice, whole grain wheat bread, and vegetables. This will give you the energy your body needs without the sugar crash and resulting hunger that you get by eating simple carbs.
One of the easiest ways to lose weight, with few restrictions on what you can eat, is the Low GI Diet. It works with your body and helps get over the hunger pangs associated with many other diets.
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