The simple fact is that, you need to eat to burn body fat
The simple fact is that, you need to eat to burn body fat. The first nutritional demand of your body is energy. Without the adequate energy, your body will convert muscle protein in to energy to feed your brain, your nervous system and your red blood cells.
These particular tissues don’t possess the metabolic machinery to burn fat. They can only burn carbohydrates. When your intake of carbohydrate falls below these tissues demand, your body begins to convert tissue protein into carbohydrate to meet their need. The overall result is a loss of muscle tissue.
The scale may say you have lost weight, but you’ve only lost the very tissue that burns fat. Muscle tissue burns 70% of the fat in your body, so losing muscle sacrifices your ability to burn body fat.
In fact, the weight you lose on a diet can represent up to 10 to 20% of those pounds in muscle loss. This poor dieters will not only regain this weight, but then some, only because they have compromised their ability to burn body fat.
Aging causes muscle loss and so does inactivity. Have you heard of the saying, Use it or lose it? This is very true of your muscle.
Inactivity can lead to muscle loss and muscle loss causes a lowered capacity to burn fat, so inevitably you wear more of it.
This is the bottom line. At any one time, for whatever reason, you lose your muscle, you lose your capacity to burn fat. Diets, aging and inactivity all lead to a decreased amount of muscle weight and will increase the amount of fat tissue.
Aerobic exercises can rebuild your muscle and it teaches your body to burn more fat. Eating the right foods gives you the nutrients you need to make that muscle. The food pyramid outlines how to eat to get the nutrients that you need.
January 12 2011 02:11 pm | lose weight