Everybody needs a certain amount of body fat to survive. For women it is between 10% and 13% and men need between 2% and 4%, according to the American Council on Exercise. These figures vary slightly depending on lifestyle and body type.
Due to the obesity epidemic permeating the world, guidelines have been issued to encourage people to keep their body fat below safe limits. The maximum for men ranges from 18% to 25% and women should stay below 18% and 25%.
The World Health Organization, which maintains health statistics, discovered that one billion people on earth are considered to be overweight, while 300 million of them are clinically obese. This article will highlight some key areas in which affect weight gain as well as ways to burn fat.
The world is getting fat because of the junk they eat. Nasty additives are tossed into the global food system, that nearly everything we touch has stuff in them that affect our metabolic rate and cause fat retention.
High fructose corn syrup, or HFCS is in a wide range of products from soft drinks to candy to cereal and bread. Used as a cheap alternative to sugar, this sweet syrup is metabolized in the body differently than regular sugar, and fat develops to grow faster.
Staying away from processed foods with additives such as HFCS, or any other wide range of ingredients out there will help to automatically balance the body’s metabolism and control weight gain. Switch to a healthier balance of fruits, vegetables, lean meats and fish.
Exercise is the other way to loose weight, and lifting weights is a good way to get started. As muscle grows, it will feed on the fat until there is more muscle than fat.
Weight lifting exercises such as bench presses, dead lifts and arm curls are easy on the body and will increase metabolism dramatically. In fact one work out with weights will kick the body’s metabolic process so much that it will last for up to five days afterwards.
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