Four simple steps to a lean body

If I told you to eat what you love and cut back on your workouts if you want to lose weight, you might tell me I’m crazy. Diet and fitness “experts” certainly would. But their terrible advice about fitness and nutrition has led to the current obesity epidemic. Nearly 40% of Americans are now obese and nearly 70% are overweight. And the problem is only getting worse. A new study in the prestigious JAMA medical journal reports that more people are giving up on trying to lose weight.1 Researchers asked 27,350 overweight and obese adults whether they had tried to lose weight in the past 12 months. Since 1988, the number of people trying to lose the weight dropped from 56% to 49%.  I don’t blame them. For decades, people have been trying to follow “expert” diet and exercise advice that just doesn’t work.  Low-fat dieting is the worst. Even if you lose some weight, you can’t sustain it. Studies show more than 90% of people who lose weight eventually gain 100% of the weight back. Often, they gain even more. To make things worse, we get really bad advice about exercise. Most fitness “gurus” push you to do more cardio. They recommend long-distance running, treadmill workouts and aerobics classes. They tell you that cardio gets you into the “fat-melting zone.” But the truth is that long cardio sessions program your body to use fat for fuel. You’re sending a signal that you need fat. In short, cardio mak...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Tags: Anti-Aging Source Type: news