| According to statistics, more than 60% of | | | | need will still lead to weight gain. Bottom |
| adult Americans (that's more than 120 million | | | | line, a calorie is a calorie wherever it |
| Americans) are overweight or obese. Globally, | | | | comes from. |
| there are more than 1 billion overweight | | | | |
| adults, at least 300 million of them obese. | | | | Do Low Calorie or Low Carb diets work? |
| Excess weight puts people at risk of heart | | | | |
| disease, high blood pressure, certain forms | | | | You will lose weight on a low calorie or low |
| of cancer, sleep apnea, liver disease, | | | | carbohydrate diet, the trouble is, you will |
| diabetes and a host of other conditions. | | | | only lose in the beginning. By starving |
| | | | yourself (and by using a low calorie or low |
| Because of a large number of different | | | | carb diet you are starving your body) your |
| methods claiming to be able to help you lose | | | | metabolism will adjust itself by burning |
| weight, people often tend to get confused as | | | | fewer calories, making you feel tired and |
| to which method is best for them. If you are | | | | hungry. In fact, fat cells respond to |
| trying to figure out what is the best way to | | | | starvation by holding on to the fat they |
| lose weight, here are some facts that may | | | | already have and becoming more aggressive at |
| help you. | | | | taking in new fat once the diet is over. You |
| | | | don't have to starve yourself to lose weight. |
| Why are people fat? | | | | Actually, you shouldn't. |
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| The foremost reason why most people are fat | | | | The healthiest way to lose weight is not |
| is because they eat wrong foods in the wrong | | | | starvation or bursts of exercise, it's eating |
| amounts at the wrong times. It's as simple as | | | | the right meals in the right patterns each |
| that. You don't get fat because of a lack of | | | | day. The number one diet secret that will |
| exercising. Regular exercise is off course | | | | work for most people is called calorie |
| extremely beneficial and it helps to create a | | | | shifting. |
| calorie deficit. However, while exercising | | | | |
| helps you stay fit and in better health, you | | | | Calorie shifting is a way to lose weight fast |
| don't get fat because you are not exercising, | | | | but without starving yourself. This diet is |
| you basically get fat because of the food you | | | | much easier then other diets because you are |
| eat and the way you eat it. | | | | not eating less food and you are not |
| | | | sacrificing from any of the four major food |
| Do Low Fat diets work? | | | | groups. |
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| It seems everything today is low fat, except | | | | Calorie shifting works by shifting the eating |
| people. Increasing number of people are still | | | | patterns from day to day and thus tricking |
| fat despite growing number of products with | | | | metabolism so that it remains running high |
| fat substitutes. How can this be? Well, foods | | | | and burning a lot of fat. Because your |
| with fat substitutes might have fewer grams | | | | metabolism is high all the time, you burn |
| of fat, but they don't have significantly | | | | more calories. The result is rapid, but safe, |
| fewer calories. Regardless of the fat content | | | | weight loss. |
| of the diet, eating more calories than you | | | | |