Reducing Fat Leads to Obesity

A new study examining the dietary habits of Americans over a 25-year period has revealed that while overall fat intake reduced by 3%, obesity in men tripled and in women doubled. The research – published this month in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition – also reveals that carbohydrate intake increased by 4% over the same period, while protein intake fell slightly. 

This is clear evidence that reducing a nation’s fat intake isn’t going to impact on weight problems. 

Fat does not make you fat – it’s too many refined carbohydrates and sugar that are the culprits. This is why eating a low-GL diet works so well, because it reduces intake of the harmful kinds of carbohydrate while increasing protein and healthy fats from sources like oily fish, nuts and seeds. This balances your blood sugar and helps you achieve, and maintain, a healthy weight. 

And speaking about too many refined carbs and sugar,

Check this out, only three foods make my cut: Steel Cut Oats, King Arthur organic flour, and quinoa.  The rest are JUNQUE!

The Healthiest Carbs In Your Supermarket

 

This information is provided by Creating Health Institute
through our Health Matters(c) project.

Build Muscle to Burn Fat

Toning and building muscle through exercise can turn your body into a fat-burning machine. There are numerous studies with the facts and figures on this. It appears that adding one additional pound of muscle to your body can burn 30-90 more calories per day, while you are at rest. A pound of fat only burns 2-4 calories in the same time frame. Think of how many more calories you can burn by simply putting on five more pounds of muscle.

To add muscle tissue you must force the body to add it. You can't just add a pound of muscle because you followed a 3-set workout that you read about in a fitness magazine. You need to give the body a reason to add muscle tissue. You have to provide a ''stimulus.'' You can do this in various ways. Basically, you need to subject your body to levels of stress it isn't used to. You can do this by slowly increasing the variables in the exercises you do.

o Increase the weight or resistance

o Do more repetitions

o Do more sets

o Move the weight or resistance slower

o Rest less between sets and exercises