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Obesity has been called the diseases of the rich by many people. And when you look closely, there is in fact some truth in this statement. Ask yourself when was the first and last time that you ever saw an obese beggar? Never isn’t it? The reason why this is happening now is because of our higher living of standard. As we have more disposable income, we tend to spend more on luxuries of life. Previously, home cooked meals might be great but now, we prefer restaurants foods. As we start to eat more and more unhealthy foods from the restaurants, we end up getting bigger and bigger around the middle area of our body.

When that happens, you will probably hear lots of advices to lose weight for a healthy life. If you were to look carefully at those “advices”, you will find that weight loss does not equal good health. Try to test this myth by going to professional nutritionist or doctors, they will advice you instead to lose Fat and NOT weight.

When you consider that your body weight is comprised of not just fat but also valuable tissues, muscles, water content, bones, etc., you will realize why ‘weight loss’ is a misleading word. Fat loss should be a more appropriate term, but unfortunately very few are aware of this difference!

So if you are set for losing weight, you could end up in endangering your health instead. How can you do something right when you don’t even know what you are doing?

For example, there several ways to lose weight quickly, but these methods won’t necessarily help you lose fat. Case in point: starvation. You can lose weight by staving yourself. However, this won’t help you lose an iota of fat, the thing you WANT to lose!

Starving your body of food lead it to adjust itself. The body reacts to burning Stored fuels for energy instead when its supply of calories is cut off. It will first burn,Carbs, Protein and when then Muscles. Your body fat will be the last components that will be used as substitute for energy because it is the hardest component to burn .

So starving yourself doesn’t mean to lose the fat in your body but rather many other tissues like your muscles. You will become weaker as a result and perhaps even crippled. Beside this, there is another reason why starvation will not lead you to losing your body fat.

After starving yourself for a few days, you will definitely feel extremely hungry. The Hunger pangs that you feel can indeed be overpowering making you gorge on foods. When that happens, you are setting up your body for another mega dose of fat deposits in your body. With less muscles left already in your body, your metabolism rate will be at its lowest point. As such, any unburnt calories will be converted and deposited as fat in your body. Furthermore, with exercising, your will not be able to regain your muscles mass to its previous level.

In conclusion, eat only healthy foods and exercising regularly. And before starving yourself or embarking on any weight loss program, ensure that the program is talking about losing your fat and not just weight loss.

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