Common Myths About Exercise

The exercise industry has been lying to you for years. They still promote the idea that cardio workouts lead to fat loss. But they’ve got it all wrong. Sure, cardio will help you burn fat for a while. You’ll even lose weight in the short term. But long-duration exercise tells your body to make more fat the next time you exercise. And after a while, your body adapts, and it gets very good at making and storing fat. Fat is a starvation survival strategy. You put on and store fat because your body thinks it’s under duress. When you do 45 minutes of cardio, your body starts to believe that having fat is a good thing… And it starts to adapt to gaining fat. The next time you eat, you convert even more of your food into fat. In the Western world, we’ve also mimicked this “starvation mode” with the nutrient content of our food. When you eat starch-heavy foods, your body goes into insulin overdrive. Insulin not only increases your body’s storage of fat, but it also decreases your body’s ability to burn fat. I call this Environmental Lipogenic Syndrome. Lipogenic means the creation of fat. As we get fatter, our bodies are deprived of the energy needed to do routine maintenance and fight disease and infection. This is the root of all chronic diseases like diabetes. It’s scary. But it’s preventable — and even reversible. You have to exercise to beat this epidemic. But not any old workout will do. You need to work out for short periods at high exertion. I’ll tell...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Tags: Anti-Aging Fitness Weight Loss Source Type: news