Healthy and sustainable weight loss is not a fantasy, but achievable in only THOSE WHO DESIRE IT AND DEMONSTRATE THIS DESIRE WITH A LONG TERM COMMITMENT TO THE RIGHT APPROACH.
It is impossible to achieve a healthy life, with increased life expectancy without exercise. Remember the human heart begins beating from 5 weeks gestation in the womb, and without taking any break, continues to work until you die. The only way to keep the heart muscle healthy is nothing short of exercising the heart muscle to pump efficiently without strain.
Thus regular exercise induces cardiovascular adaptations that promote a healthy heart and hence longevity. Overweight and obesity problems put excessive demands on the heart making it prone to failure and premature death. It is obvious therefore that without appropriate exercise it is impossible to attain the healthy body we dream of.
The human body was created, very dynamic in its design and function contrary to what the evolutionary theory makes us understand. Without an understanding of this concept it is impossible to realise that the body restricts fat utilisation in accordance to a pre-programmed weight according to one's own eating habits. Adipose cells are laid during three phases of life; the last trimester of pregnancy, the first year of life and during the adolescent growth spurt period. This critically determines the potential for overweight problems subject to lifestyle patterns. Your general lifestyle then determines the ease with which fat cells can be burnt for weight loss purposes.
It is therefore imperative that without a sustained increased energy demand from a regular moderate intensity exercise lifestyle pattern, it is easy for the human brain to manipulate the energy equation (see the section on dieting) without utilising stored fat. Note that the brain is reluctant to authorise the use of stored fat, it needs that in the even of any crises where you are unable to feed.
Even though it is possible to achieve weight loss by avoiding the natural and physiological way through exercise and reducing total energy intake, and using either drugs or weird dieting (unbalanced ), such weight loss is temporal. Such 'crises weight loss' often involves muscle brakdown and water loss and not fat cell loss.
It is important to realise that even for exercise to induce an acceptable healthy weight loss a critical level of work load /intensity needs to be attained, and done regularly. This level of exercise intensity induces hormonal changes that involve fatmobilasaion and other parameters for improved health. Anything short of this results in a temporal weight loss which is often regained typically with vengeance. This explains why mere walking has little or no effect on weight that has already been gained. Remember over 95% of all those who lose weight put it back on.
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