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Mike
Carruthers:
With
all the products pills and diets that promise miraculous weight
loss, how come people are getting fatter and fatter? Maybe it's
because those promises are empty.
Craig Pepin-Donat:
Losing weight is all about a caloric deficit, thirty-five
hundred calories equals one pound - period, end of story. When
it comes to weight loss, calories are king and you do have to
eat less and move more - there's no two ways about it.
Craig Pepin-Donat,
author of the book The
Big Fat Health & Fitness Lie…
The diet industry
wants you to believe that you can eat more and weigh less. That's
a big fat lie. And that's one of the reasons why the diet industry
is a forty billion dollar rip off. Ninety-five percent of the
people who go on a diet will never sustain and never achieve
their goals in long term.
In terms of exercise,
the recommendation you often hear for sedentary people is to
get up and start walking, which is good - but…
If you're really
interested in long-term benefits through physical activity,
it requires regular consistent exercise in the form of both
cardio-respiratory exercise and strength training. The strength
training builds lean muscle tissue and lean muscle tissue is
our fat-burning machinery. It will enable you to burn more calories
at rest. So at the end of the day walking is good, it's a good
first step, so to speak - but it's probably not the end-all
solution.
You can link
to Craig's website
from ours: somethingyoushouldknow.net
- I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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