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| How to Increase Your Fat and Sugar Burning to Aid Weight Loss |
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| In order to carry through a successful weight reduction process, your
over-weight must be attacked from several angles at the same time.
Among other measures, you also have to increase your burning of fat and
sugar. This burning is also of two kinds. The body are steadily burning
fat and sugar and thereby producing heat, and it burns these nutrients
to get energy for the daily activities you perform. The aim in a
slimming process is to increase both these burning processes. In the
terminology often used about slimming, this is often called
\"increasing your energy levels\".
A. THE FAT AND SUGAR BURNING PROCESS
The burning of fat and sugar is composed of many chemical steps. Fat is
first broken apart yielding free fatty acids. The fatty acids are then
broken further down to pieces called acetyl. The sugar is also broken
down to acetyl in a process called glycolysis, and the energy thus
released is used to produce an energy-rich compound called ATP. The
acetyl formed from the braking down of fat and sugar is then further
combined with oxygen yielding carbon dioxide and water, and even more
ATP is produced. The ATP produced is then used to release heat and to
give energy for the bodily work.
B. GET ALL THE NUTRIENTS YOU REQUIRE
The process of braking down and burning fat and sugar uses vitamins,
minerals and essential fatty acids as working tools. Therefore your
diet has to contain all these nutrients in the needed amount. Including
vegetables or fruit in a natural form in every meal will help you get
these nutrients. Even though your generally shall reduce your fat
consume, some types of food containing essential fatty acids should be
a part of your daily diet, for example nuts, almonds, sunflower seeds,
olives, olive oil and fat fish.
Extra supplements of vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids and
lecithin can also be of help.
C. PHYSICAL EXERCISE
You should do some physical exercise at least every second day.
Condition training like running, swimming, cycling or ball play
consumes energy and thereby helps burn fat and sugar. The burning
process even continues some hours after the training session.
Weight lifting or other muscle building activities are also of value.
They help convert fat in your body to muscle mass and muscles are
always burning some sugar and fat, even when they are not active.
D. USE OF DRUGS OF THE AMPHETAMINE GROUP
Amphetamine and related substances stimulate the activity of the
central nervous system and thereby give impulses to increased external
activity that consumes fat and sugar. These compounds also increase the
metabolic activities that produce heat by consume of fat and sugar.
These compounds can also reduce the appetite. All these effects can
together help to reduce an excessive weight. However, these compounds
also may give many unpleasant or dangerous effects, like addiction,
insomnia, agitation, manic reactions, hypertension, stroke, heart valve
damage and heart rhythm disturbances. Therefore amphetamine itself and
many related compounds are by now banned in most societies as a means
to reduce weight. Amphetamine was early banned and classified as an
illegal narcotic. By now also these compounds has been banned after
having been on the market for some time: aminorex, fenfluramine,
phenylpropanolamine and ephedrine.
Substances of this group available on the market today as weight
reduction aids are: Phentermine, diethylpropion, phenidmetrazine,
benzphetamine, sibutramine, rimonabant, oxyntomodulin and fluoxetine
hydrochloride (Prozac).
E. USE OF CAFFEINE AND SIMILAR COMPOUNDS
Caffeine and similar compounds also increase the mental alertness, the
feeling of energy and the impulses to external action, and thereby they
also increase the burning of fat and sugar. They also increase the fat
and sugar burning by accelerating the basic heat production metabolism.
A simple way of taking caffeine or the related compound teofylline is
drinking a few cups of coffee or tea each day. A cup of coffee in the
morning can and another cup in the afternoon can often give you the
impulse you need to do an effective daily exercise session.
The tropical plants Yerba Mate and Guarana contain caffeine variants
with a much greater effect on the fat and sugar burning than ordinary
caffeine. On the market you can find sport drinks and slimming aids
containing extracts of these plants.
F. SUPPLEMENTS STIMULATING THE THYROID GLAND
The hormones produced by the thyroid gland increase the basic
metabolism and the burning of fat and sugar. A sluggish production of
thyroid hormones can therefore contribute to developing over-weight.
Vitamins and minerals that the thyroid gland use as tools to produce
its hormones can help to effectivize the thyroid hormone production,
for example vitamin B1, vitamin B2, Vitamin B6, magnesium, manganese,
potassium and zinc. Compounds being raw material for this production
can also help the thyroid gland to effectivize its hormone production,
for example L-thyrosine and iodine. These compounds are found in many
supplements to aid slimming. |
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