Does Cardiovascular exercise make you smarter
There’s plenty of research to suggest the cardiovascular exercise, like running, or any other cardio activity, improves your heart health, help you manage your blood pressure and lots of other health benefits. But in the past few years, research has taken benefits of cardio exercise to the next level. It suggests that performing cardiovascular exercise might actually make you smarter.
Photo: Men Running in Speedos (bostonrunner@flickr)
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Why lose weight- 5 reasons
Most people start a weight loss plan for aesthetic reasons to look good. But beyond that, excess weight is literally a menace to your health. Besides making you fat, large amounts of fatty deposits can cause havoc on your body’s internal systems.
By Indian government obesity guidelines, People who are Body Mass Index (BMI) of 25 or greater are clinically termed obese & have a much higher risk for many major illnesses. This is due to a genetic Indian risk of diabetes & heart disease. For most of us, obesity sounds like something foreign, but to be over a BMI of 25, is for example, anyone with a height of 5 feet and weighing over 58.2 kg, 5 feet 6 inches & weighing over 70.5 kg, or 6 feet tall and weighing over 83.6 kg.
Check the table below to see if you fall into the obese category. The height is in inches, the weight is in lbs.
Photo: Check Obesity: Body Mass Index Table
Surprisingly, many people fall into the high risk category. Here are few reasons why you definitely have to lose weight: Read more
Are you drinking fat?
Sounds disgusting, but many of those soft drinks that we merrily consume are literally like drinking fat. We tell you all the time how sugar can make you fat. According to the New York City Health Department, drinking just one can of soft drinks (or sugary soda) can make you gain upto 5 kgs of fat! Leave aside all those weekly chocolate cake calories, or the coffee drink calories!
To further reinforce this matter, the New York City government has come up with this video highlighting the effects of sugary drinks. See it here below. Read more
10 Weight Loss New Year Resolutions that work
The New Year is almost here. Its time to look back at how the past year went, & plan your goals for next year! Is weight loss or fitness one of those goals? Did you make a weight loss resolution at the beginning of the past year? Did you achieve it…
Previously, we told you why most weight loss resolutions for the New Year don’t work. Here, we tell you how you can lose weight this coming year with the right weight loss goals. Don’t get on any crazy diets. Stick to a realistic diet plan. Add good foods to your diet (eg: green tea, almonds) and get some exercise. Before you know, the pounds will be melting away!
Photo: New Year Celebration (tallcj@flickr)
So, here are Fitho’s top 10 Weight Loss resolutions for 2010: Read more
Belly fat increases Asthma risk
Whether its a belly, or love handles, we already hate the belly fat on our bodies. To make it worse, recent research shows that overweight or obese women were more likely to develop asthma than women with a healthy weight.
Photo- Fat Man (oxygo@flickr)
Further they found that regardless of weight, Read more
Sugar side effects- makes you less manly
We’ve told you about how sugar makes you fat. There’s new research that shows that besides promoting fat storage in your body, it further adversely affects your body. Read on to find out..
Sugar affects testosterone levels in men (stevenkrygger@flickr)
According to a new study, sugar reduces testosterone levels. Testosterone is the male hormone- its what promotes muscle growth (and fat loss), gives you facial and body hair and keeps your sex life crackling! So, a reduction of testosterone means that you could potentially have less muscle, a not so hot sex life, and overall being less manly.
So, is sugar really worth the side effects? We don’t think so. We’re not saying live without sugar, but find good replacements. A natural sugar replacement is honey. Honey has many health benefits. If you want to go sugar free, use the healthiest sugar substitute.
Indians are genetically prone to diabetes, so manage your sugar intake. It’ll keep you healthy!
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Lose weight, get smart!
You already know the benefits of losing weight- It is good for your heart, help you live longer, and eases depression. But can it make you smarter?
Losing weight makes you smart (txtamz@flickr)
Apparently, it does make you smarter! Researchers at Stanford University found that patients who had undergone gastric bypass surgery showed improvement in memory, problem solving, and attention to detail.
Research showed that belly fat contains harmful chemicals, when released into the bloodstream, trigger inflammation and cloud the mind. Know more why belly fat is unhealthy.
Before you book yourself expensive weight loss surgery to test out this theory, experts say losing weight through diet and exercise has the same effect. Thirty minutes a day of exercise is all you need to get in shape. We have tons of weight loss tips, diet tips, exercises to get fit, and info about healthy foods/recipes.
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Can muscles turn to fat
A common concern before people start working out is - If you stop working out, does muscle become fat? This is a common myth. Let’s show you how.
Do muscles turn into fat (joshishi@flickr)
When you start working out, your body builds muscle. To build and maintain muscle, your body uses calories. As a result, your metabolic goes up. With an increased metabolic rate, your body needs more calories to maintain itself. So, you get hungrier and you eat more. As long as you keep up the cycle of working out and eating appropriately, life is great.
Now when you stop working out for a long period of time, due to inactivity your muscles begin to atrophy (shrink in size). So, your muscle mass reduces. With a reduced muscle mass, your body needs fewer calories to maintain itself, thus the amount of food needs to reduce appropriately.
This is the problem. When people stop working out, they don’t reduce their diets appropriately to match their reducing metabolic rates. So, they stop working out but keep eating the same amount of food. As a result, there is excess calories in the body. And we all know what happens with excess calories- they get stored as fat in the body.
So, muscle does not turn into fat. Its the extra calories that you eat that turn into fat. Next time someone tells you that muscles turns into fat, feel free to enlighten them or send them to us! And just know that as long as know your daily calorie requirement, you won’t gain any weight!
Similarly, know that muscle does not turn into bone either!
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