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Why Bananas Will Make You Lose Weight

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  Bananas can make you lose weight for a number of reasons of which the following are the most empirically grounded ones.  1)  You’ll Start Burning Fat According to eatthis.com, Bananas have 12 mg of choline, a fat-blasting B vitamin that acts directly on the genes that cause fat storage in the abdomen. According to an article posted by this site, One reason heavy drinkers have bloated bellies is that alcohol depletes choline, causing weight gain around the liver.  2)  Your Blood Sugar Will Stabilize “Bananas are a great source of nutrition for a lot of reasons!” says Bjork from eatthis.com “I encourage consuming protein and healthy fat with the banana to slow down the absorption of the sugar from the banana into your bloodstream. This is the most effective strategy for keeping blood sugar levels stable, which means consistent energy levels and weight loss (since stable blood sugar levels allow the pancreas to secrete glucagon, the fat-burning hormone!)” Hormone...
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What Level of Fitness is Enough For You To Lose Weight?

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      How much fitness is sufficient?  Can I determine how much fitness I  require for a normal day to day life? Fitness itself is an aggregate of all the components that it comprises. We have the cardio respiratory component, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility and body composition component. Let me define the four components before returning to this question. Cardio Respiratory Fitness :- This is your body's ability to be able to supply energy and oxygen to your muscles during prolonged physical activity without tiredness or fatigue. How can we measure the cardio respiratory fitness? How Can You Improve Cardiorespiratory Fitness? Please read :- seven-best-common-aerobics-for-burning The minimum amount of aerobic exercise recommended for fitness by the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association is 30 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise five days per week, or 20 minutes of vigorous-intensity exercise three...
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Why Loosing Weight and Loosing Fat Isn't Always The Same

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Difference Between Losing Weight and Losing Fat You can be loosing weight without losing fat and you can be losing fat without losing weight. Many people are losing weight but they are not losing fat.  The fat is still there though they appear to be gone.  How is this possible?  Fat is stored in fat cells in the body as chemical energy. When the number in your scale goes down,  the weight loss may not be fat but water and glycogen. This is the case with some people who lose weight. The body is composed of organs,  muscles, water, etc.  which all together makes up the weight of an individual. Excess glucose is usually converted to glycogen and stored in the liver and skeletal muscles.   Glycogen functions as one of two forms of long-term energy reserves, with the other form being   triglyceride   stores in   adipose tissue   (i.e., body fat).   In the liver, glycogen can make up from 5–6% of the organ's fresh w...
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Why Training Too Hard Won't Make You Lose Weight

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Obesity is on the rise every day. People eat and grow fat then they bring their children up in that poor eating lifestyle and the children gets fat also and they in turn pass on the fat lifestyle to the next generation. Today, we want fast foods and junks and we would rather eat out at restaurants than prepare our own food.         In an attempt to lose weight, gym membership is always on the increase. And some people prefer Fitness centers. In any case, the believe is that the more I exercise, the more I shed. This is often not the case as we shall see below. What is High Intensity Training           Let me put it to you in a layman's way. An intense training is any work out that gets your heart beat up, increases body heat and cannot be continued after a relatively short period, usually 5 minutes. I am referring to high intensity training in the strict sense of what it implies. This post does not include the high intensity interv...
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Know Your Waist Circumference

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Knowing your waist circumference is very important because it shows  the amount of visceral fat in the abdominal region. Abdominal fat is considered to be more health riskful than total obesity.  This means that people who have fat in the thighs,  arms, buttocks, etc. are not at much risk as those with fat in the abdominal region. This is so because visceral fat feeds directly into the liver via the portal vein. In caveman days when famine was common, stores of visceral fat were crucial for survival, but now there is little need for excess stores of readily available energy. Also termed the omentum, this deep fat tissue causes metabolic disorders like poor blood sugar control, heart disease, diabetes, and increased risk of breast cancer and gallbladder disease.      Also, according to the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, your waist measurement is an indicator of whether you are at a healthy weight. A man whose waist measureme...
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What is Making You Put On Weight? Sugar or Fat?

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The issue of whether sugar or fat leads to weight gain has been a bone of contention among scholars for a long period of time.          When you eat, your food is broken down by enzymes  into glucose  and absorbed through the walls of the small intestine. Glucose is used as energy   however not all glucose are utilized since there are usually excess glucose. Meanwhile, the glucose required by the body on daily basis is usually not as much as the glucose consumed daily by the average person. The pancreas then releases the hormone insulin to move the excess glucose from the blood to be stored as fat. This way, insulin regulates the level of glucose in the blood and the absence of insulin can cause health defects especially diabetes.      When you eat sugar or sugary foods, the food is digested very quickly and you will have much higher levels of glucose in your blood, which, in turn, will require more insulin to be rele...
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