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How does temperature affect the burning of calories and weight loss?
Posted by admin on December 16th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Some people assume that exercising in a hot environment causes you to burn more calories and loss more weight, but it seems to me that would just be water weight lost through sweating. However, if you exercise in colder temperatures, wouldn't that cause you to burn more calories, as your body must work harder to maintain our relatively high body temperatures?
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How to Make Calories Work for you for Quick Weight Loss
Posted by admin on December 11th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
How To Make Calories Work For You For Rapid Weight Loss
Whether concerned about being somewhat overweight; general physical fitness; or obesity; thousands of us at one point or another have had to deal with dieting and losing weight. Anyone that has been on a weight-reduction plan before is familiar with all the headaches and uncertainty that are associated with dieting. Which diet is best? What can I eat? Should I cut out fat? There is pleasing news when it comes to losing unwan...
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How Many Calories Should I Eat For Rapid Weight Loss?
Posted by admin on October 27th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Im 15, about 5'7, and need to lose weight by tuesday. Im asking someone out and I would like to look my best when I do so.
How many calories should I eat daily to acheive rapid weight loss?...
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Don’t Hate Calories
Posted by admin on May 13th, 2009 at 12:38 am
The word calorie has a bad rap. We constantly come across calorie reduced or low calorie foods. And it’s not uncommon to overhear someone gasp about the immense calorie content of certain foods, such as a rich and creamy desert, or a giant fast food burger.
All of this anti-calorie rhetoric therefore has made a lot of us pretty calorie-phobic; as soon as we see something that has lots of them, we run away. But is this wise?
Yes and no. Yes, it’s wise in the sense that avoiding that dou...
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Calories
Posted by admin on May 13th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Calories are simply units of measure. They aren’t actually things in and of themselves; they are labels for other things, just like how an inch really isn’t anything, but it measures the distance between two points.
So what do calories measure?
Easy: they measure energy.
Yup, the evil calorie – the bane of the dieter’s existence – is really just a 3-syllable label for energy.
And it’s important to highlight this, because the body itself, despite its vast intelligence (much of...
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