by: Chris Chew
Everyone knows that we
need to burn more calories
than we eat to lose weight.
But what are calories? Why
is it we can lose weight
by burning calories? How
are calories being burnt?
Calorie is a measurement
of heat. It is the amount
of energy that is required
to raise one milliliter
of water by one degree Celsius.
Calorie measures the amount
of heat or energy that is
released when you burn food
down.
Calories are burnt through
a complicated process that
oxidizes food to its basic
components. For example,
if you burn a sugar, it
will turn into carbon dioxide.
However in the body, the
food burnt is converted
to forms of energy.
So therefore when you consume
food, the food is broken
down and stored as adipose
fat or glycogen (which are
stored in liver and muscles
cells) to be burnt for energy
later. Your body prefers
to burn glycogen as its
first choice of energy rather
than body fat when you expand
energy such as exercising.
The more muscles you have
in your body, the more calories
you will burn. The more
calories you burnt, the
more weight you will lose.
This is because muscle cells
are metabolically active
whereas body fats are not
because fat cells do not
have much functionality
and are mostly inactive.
Different food categories
carry different amount of
calories. For example, a
gram of protein or carbohydrate
has about four calories
but a gram of fat packs
a whopping nine calories.
It is thus a no brainer
that the more fat you eat
the more calories your body
will store.
Some people raise their
metabolic rate by eating
many smaller meals a day
instead of three big meals.
By eating several 5-6 times
a day, your insulin level
is also better regulated
and less insulin will then
be converted to adipose
fat.
So how can you burn more
calories and further raise
your metabolism to naturally
burn more calories and body
fats? A simple and effective
way to burn more calories
is to build more muscles
as explained above and exercise
to expand energy and thus
burning more calories in
the process.
About The Author
Chris Chew is a fitness
trainer of fashion models,
actors and male pageant
competitors. He is also
the creator and author of
Burn Fat Build Muscles Fast
System. See his websites
http://www.sgfitness.com
and http://www.sgfitnessonline.com.
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