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