Introduction
Due to the massive health promotion and disease prevention campaigns from the health sector, lots and lots of people are already well informed of how to combat the life threatening diseases such as heart attack and stroke. These conditions are lifestyle related, that is, if you’ll improve certain aspects of your daily routine, you will lose the likelihood of contracting these diseases. Heart attack and stroke are caused by faulty diet and lack of exercise. Since people are already empowered with the knowledge on how to fight against these culprits, they are now incorporating healthy eating habits and daily exercise routines into their daily activities. As a result, people want to shed off extra fat not only because they are conscious of how they look on the outside but also they want to extend their life span by adopting a healthier lifestyle; and, we are only guaranteed that our diet regimen is effective if we can see actual results such decreasing weight on the weighing scale.
Facts
There are 4,500 people enlisted at the National Weight Control Registry who have known to lose 30 pounds each or even more! Consequently, obesity experts James Hill, PhD and Rena Wing, PhD came up with a study wherein the participants were able to lose 67 pounds in average and were able to maintain being fit for more than 5 and a half years! Thus, the obesity experts were able to deduce an assumption as to what are effective and what are not in terms of losing weight. Dr. Holly Wyatt, an assistant professor and a colleague of Hill, from the University of Colorado Health and Sciences Center was able to discover the secrets in how the participants of the registry were able to lose weight and maintained it for a long time. He then outlined those secrets and made them public in order for a whole lot more population to benefit from.
Secrets Revealed
According to Wyatt, one of the biggest contributors to weight loss is a high physical activity. Dieting is not enough because you cut down both your muscles and fats and muscle loss tend to slow you’re your metabolism. Slowing down your metabolism will only lead to less food being converted to energy; as a result, it will only store up in our body as fat. And it is only through exercise that you boost your metabolism and maintain your weight loss. The participants of the registry were recorded to burn 400 calories per day, which is more or less comparable to a 4-mile walk. The participants pointed out that it took them an average of 60 to 90 minutes to do their daily exercise routine. Thus, in order to improve your general health, you must see to it that you not only taper your food intake but also couple it with a 60-minute daily exercise routine.
Ultimate Reasons in Adopting a Healthier Lifestyle
By adopting a healthy, it is indeed a fact that you significantly reduce the risks of lifestyle related disease conditions such as heart attack, diabetes, stroke, back pain, joint problems, and certain types of cancer, etc. Here are the main reasons why we feel the urge to lose weight:
- We want to be with our loved ones for a longer time.
- We want keep our level of alertness intact.
- We want to boost our energy level.
- We want to maintain the integrity of our immune system.
- We want to reduce the risk of lifestyle related disease conditions.
- We want to reduce our stress level and feel fabulous.
Exercises Pinpointed
The top 10 ways in shedding off our extra pound are as follows:
- Doing jump rope
- Roller skating
- Bicycling
- Swimming
- Doing hopscotch with kids
- Ballroom Dancing
- Coaching kids’ soccer team
- Canoe paddling
- Walking in the woods
- Playing Frisbee
In order to maintain a healthy lifestyle, you need to combine nourishing food intake with good daily exercise regimen.
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