exercise for good health

Exercise Reduces Body Fat

The leading experts now recommend that people who want to lose weight start increasing their physical activity.  Just being more active in general (such as climbing the stairs instead of taking the elevator, moving around instead of sitting still, sitting up instead of lying down as well as showing some excitement and enthusiasm instead of boredom), are things that more effectively burns calories and reduces body fat.  Everyone seems to have lost sight of the value of being active.  Consider this, a half-hour aerobic workout accounts for far less energy expenditure than our minute-to-minute movement in the office or at home.

Millions of Americans are trying to lose weight, spending approximately $30 billion a year on diet programs and products and often they do lose some weight.  But, if you check with the same people five years later, you will find that nearly all have regained whatever weight they lost.  A national panel recently researched data to determine if any commercial diet program could prove long-term success.  Not a single program could do so. Being seriously overweight and particularly obesity predisposes individuals to a number of diseases and serious health problems, and it’s now a known fact that when caloric intake is excessive, some of the excess  is more than likely saturated fat.

People who diet without exercising often gain more weight with time.  Although your weight may initially drop while dieting, such weight loss consists mostly of water and muscle.   When the weight returns, it comes back as fat.  To avoid this cycle, increase your metabolism by exercising regularly.

Walking is one of the best exercises for strengthening bones, controlling weight, toning the leg muscles, maintaining good posture and improving positive self-concept. To lose weight, it’s more important to walk for time than speed.  Walking at a moderate pace yields longer workouts with less soreness – leading t more miles and more fat worked off on a regular basis.  High intensity walks on alternate days help condition one’s system.  But in a walking, weight-loss program, you are not required to walk an hour every day as some people would have you believe.

When it comes to good health and weight loss, exercise and diet are inter-related.  Exercising without maintaining a balanced diet is no more beneficial than dieting while remaining inactive.

Hope this information helps motivate you to get off the couch and enjoy the outdoors!

Darlene

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