Burning Fat

This lens is going to focus on how to lose weight. What really is the best way?

Being over weight is now at epidemic proportions. While some say we are too concened with a person's weight; the reality is, it isn't just someone's appearance. It's the surge in health problems. We as a society have to accept that we are having a huge weight problem and it's because of our progression as a society in certain ways.

Food, and in particular fast food, is just too available. This is a good thing and a bad thing. It's better to have too much food available than not enough, but if you can't control your eating, you are going to pay the price by being over weight and risking your health. That's pretty much the over weight problem in a nut shell.

Now, the big question is: what to do about this problem? That's what this lens is all about.

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Slow Carbs = Fast Weight Loss?

There has been some recent talk of how "slow" carbohydrates, also known as complex carbohydrates, are a great way to feel good all day and also lose weight. Why? Well, here is the difference between these slow carbs and the fast ones:

when you eat the slow carbs it raises your blood sugar level gradually and thus gives you energy gradually. When you eat the fast carbs, it raises your blood sugar quickly and gives you a sudden jolt of energy. The bad thing about the fast carbs is that you come down from the sudden increase in energy and then your body craves more of the same. This leads to eating too much.

So, the easy answer here is to eat the slow carbs instead of the fast carbs. How do you do this? Well, by replacing certain foods. Here are some examples: you can replace regular pasta with whole grain pasta. White bread with whole grain, wheat bread. White rice with brown rice. Eat more beans.

here is a website that will help you find the slow carbs:

www.glycemicindex.com

Perhaps the first step in loosing weight is deciding whether you are over weight in the first place.

There are a few different guides that suggest what the healthy weight is for your height, age and sex. Of course these aren't completely accurate because some people have different body types, but I think it is a fairly good way to judge where you stand as far as being over weight.

Here are two sites:

http://www.dietitian.com/ibw/ibw.html

Here is one for kids:

http://www.kidsnutrition.org/bodycomp/bmiz2.html

fat burning

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