| According to statistics, more than 60% of adult | | | | significantly fewer calories. Regardless of the fat |
| Americans (that's more than 120 million Americans) are | | | | content of the diet, eating more calories than you need |
| overweight or obese. Globally, there are more than 1 | | | | will still lead to weight gain. Bottom line, a calorie is a |
| billion overweight adults, at least 300 million of them | | | | calorie wherever it comes from. |
| obese. Excess weight puts people at risk of heart | | | | Do Low Calorie or Low Carb diets work? |
| disease, high blood pressure, certain forms of cancer, | | | | You will lose weight on a low calorie or low |
| sleep apnea, liver disease, diabetes and a host of | | | | carbohydrate diet, the trouble is, you will only lose in the |
| other conditions. | | | | beginning. By starving yourself (and by using a low |
| Because of a large number of different methods | | | | calorie or low carb diet you are starving your body) |
| claiming to be able to help you lose weight, people | | | | your metabolism will adjust itself by burning fewer |
| often tend to get confused as to which method is best | | | | calories, making you feel tired and hungry. In fact, fat |
| for them. If you are trying to figure out what is the | | | | cells respond to starvation by holding on to the fat |
| best way to lose weight, here are some facts that | | | | they already have and becoming more aggressive at |
| may help you. | | | | taking in new fat once the diet is over. You don't have |
| Why are people fat? | | | | to starve yourself to lose weight. Actually, you |
| The foremost reason why most people are fat is | | | | shouldn't. |
| because they eat wrong foods in the wrong amounts | | | | The healthiest way to lose weight is not starvation or |
| at the wrong times. It's as simple as that. You don't get | | | | bursts of exercise, it's eating the right meals in the right |
| fat because of a lack of exercising. Regular exercise | | | | patterns each day. The number one diet secret that |
| is off course extremely beneficial and it helps to | | | | will work for most people is called Calorie Shifting. |
| create a calorie deficit. However, while exercising helps | | | | Calorie shifting is a way to lose weight fast but without |
| you stay fit and in better health, you don't get fat | | | | starving yourself. This diet is much easier then other |
| because you are not exercising, you basically get fat | | | | diets because you are not eating less food and you |
| because of the food you eat and the way you eat it. | | | | are not sacrificing from any of the four major food |
| Do Low Fat diets work? | | | | groups. |
| It seems everything today is low fat, except people. | | | | Calorie shifting works by shifting the eating patterns |
| Increasing number of people are still fat despite | | | | from day to day and thus tricking metabolism so that it |
| growing number of products with fat substitutes. How | | | | remains running high and burning a lot of fat. Because |
| can this be? Well, foods with fat substitutes might | | | | your metabolism is high all the time, you burn more |
| have fewer grams of fat, but they don't have | | | | calories. The result is rapid, but safe, weight loss. |