Most bodies love to store fat, it’s good security for when you run out of food. This is unlikely, but your body doesn’t know that. Unfortunately, the body loves storing fat so much that it will burn anything else available (muscle tissue, stored carbohydrate, etc.) before digging into the fat reserves. Unless you trick it. Visit health yahoo directory, it is also a good source of information.

The first thing your body will burn is stored carbohydrates in the form of glycogen. The next is muscle tissue, only then does it grudgingly dip into the fat stores. This is why most diets don’t work, especially “starvation” diets. When you suddenly cut off the food supply, a survival mechanism kicks in causing the body to store every little bit of fat that it can!

This results in weight loss, but not much fat loss, and as soon as you DO eat something, it immediately gets stored as fat to replace any that was used. This is NOT what you want, so you have to fool the body into thinking it doesn’t need fat. Here is a list of effective ways to do this, and you won’t even have to starve yourself! It’s never easy though.

Tips:

1) Limit, but don’t cut out high fat foods: Dietary fat can be stored if taken in excess, however, some fat intake must be maintained to prevent the body from storing every bit of fat it does get.

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2) Limit high sugar and high glycemic index foods (including fruit): Simple sugars (and many “complex”carbohydrates) get easily converted into fat, and can also be the cause of high cholesterol. Glucose, fructose, and sucrose are all simple sugars and maltodextrin (common in many “weight gainer supplements) has a very high glycemic index putting it in the same category as simple sugars.

I’m not saying not to eat fruit, as they contain many beneficial vitamins, just don’t overdo it. Keep it to 2 or 3 pieces a day.

3)Eat more frequently: Yes, you read that right! Eat 5 or 6 smaller meals a day (or 3 main meals and 2 -3 healthy snacks (protein shakes work well)). There are several reasons for this, they are:

*With smaller servings, your stomach will shrink and you will get full faster.

*Digesting burns a surprising amount of calories, eat more often and burn more calories!

*When you eat a large meal, the body takes what it needs, and saves the excess as, guess what? FAT. Smaller meals prevent this even if you eat the same amount overall. Check out more information on healthy dose of food


http://www.gerson.org/Programs/monthlyprogram.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/health_medicine/nutrition/ http://www.naturalnews.com/ http://www.mercola.com/


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