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Hi Everyone,

Here’s the skinny on how food can turn into fat. Knowledge accumulated along the way goes a long way in one’s quest for a healthier and leaner body.

The sequence goes like this -

1. Food is consumed.
2. Food consumed is broken down into glucose.
3. Nutrients in the form of glucose is transported to every cell in the body via the bloodstream to provide as fuel.
4. If the levels of glucose created is in surplus to the body’s requirements, it will be stored in the muscles and liver as glycogen.
5. If the glycogen stores are full, the excess will then be stored away as fat.

So, to avoid this excess in glucose and glycogen stores, eat smaller and frequent meals. This will ensure that the glucose converted is made available just based on what the body requires. Nothing in excess. It’s a great way to avoid accumulating fat and will even help in your quest for a better body transformation.

Towards a leaner you,
Cheng

By: Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS
Turbulence Training for Fat Loss

The great thing about strength training and intervals for fat burning is “efficiency”. Because you are working harder, the signal to your body to change is stronger. You cut time when you increase intensity and you burn fat faster.

Now don’t worry, I won’t be asking you to do hill sprints tomorrow if you aren’t exercising today. For a beginner, we just do some slightly faster than normal walking intervals. For intermediate fitness levels, we’ll pick up the pace about 20% compared to their normal cardio levels, but again, the work periods are much shorter.

The key is, you must shift to a slightly higher intensity in order to cut time from your workout. But the workout also goes faster, and much more importantly, you will get more results and better fitness from these methods.

It’s easy to do these workouts first thing in the AM, at lunch, or after the kids go to bed. Plus, you can get a great workout at home with only a bench, dumbells, and an exercise ball. You don’t need fancy machines or an expensive gym membership.

And another bonus, you only need three hard fat burning workouts per week. You don’t have to be in the gym six days per week.

On your off days, it’s important to stay active for at least 30 minutes, but these days should be unstructured and revolve around being active with your family or hobbies. Don’t think of them as workout days, think of them as fat burning, stress reducing activity days.

About the Author
Craig Ballantyne is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist and writes for Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Maximum Fitness, Muscle and Fitness Hers, and Oxygen magazines. His trademarked Turbulence Training fat loss workouts have been featured multiple times in Men’s Fitness and Maximum Fitness magazines, and have helped thousands of men and women around the world lose fat, gain muscle, and get lean in less than 45 minutes three times per week. For more information on the Turbulence Training workouts that will help you burn fat without long, slow cardio sessions or fancy equipment, visit Turbulence Training for Fat Loss

Greetings,

In my quest to maintain a healthy lifestyle, rid of stubborn fats, share on great information to fat/weight loss management and to better health & wellness, it really saddens me to know that there are ailments which can be better managed by a better choice of nutrition, exercise & stress management and yet most times it falls on deaf ears.

One such ailment is High Blood Pressure or Hypertension. 

Blood pressure is the force in the arteries when the heart beats (systolic pressure) and when the heart is at rest (diastolic pressure). It’s measured in millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). High blood pressure (or hypertension) is defined in an adult as a blood pressure greater than or equal to 140 mm Hg systolic pressure or greater than or equal to 90 mm Hg diastolic pressure. 

High blood pressure directly increases the risk of coronary heart disease (which leads to heart attack) and stroke, especially when it’s present with other risk factors.

When a person is diagnosed with high blood pressure, treatment of some sort needs to be started as soon as possible. There are many ways to treat high blood pressure and one or more methods will be a potentially life saving measure. The most common treatment for high blood pressure is with prescription medications. 

My preferred treatment is with Diet And Exercise. Of course, if it had been just the early diagnosis and a borderline case, this will be my personal preferred choice, unless the doctors determines that it’s too much of a risk to even start with management with one’s diet and exercise.

It has been found that diet and exercise have a great impact on treating high blood pressure.  People who are overweight have an increased incidence of high blood pressure and losing weight has been shown to have a significant effect in lowering the blood pressure.  There are also specific things a person may consume that such as a high fat, high salt diet that will increase the chance of high blood pressure.  People who reduce these substances can also reduce their blood pressure.  People wanting to treat high blood pressure may find that reducing their alcohol intake is very effective.  Another effective treatment for high blood pressure may be increasing potassium rich foods in the diet such as oranges, bananas, and melons. 

Studies have proven that exercise can have a very positive effect on high blood pressure.  People can use a regular exercise program as an effective treatment for high blood pressure.  By increasing exercise, decreasing weight, and changing specific things in the diet a person may find that they no longer have a problem with high blood pressure.

There you have it… in my opinion a much better way of managing High Blood Pressure. Of course, if you help it, prevent it first

Cheers,
Cheng