22nd August 2006, 7:20 PM
Fat is stored for a reason, it at least has ONE thing, something to burn when your muscles need energy. That's it though. Fat isn't burned to repair bones, keep your retina functioning, maintain brain chemistry, or any of the other thousands of things your body needs to do daily to keep itself running and replace what gets worn out. It does do something, fuel muscles, but that's it. Try not to each so much fat if you don't want artery issues, and try not to each so much sugar if you don't want an inbalance that requires shots. Also, try not to each such an incredibly stupid amount that you need to be cut away from the side of your house. Other than that, your shape is pretty much defined by genes and only altered by surgery.
But my point was really that too many people try ADDING food to their diet without removing anything because they think that, I guess, healthy food has a negative mass. Wish it did, we could hold open wormholes with it, but all it does is add less fat.
Eating less FAT is the healthy thing (to an extent, it's still needed unless you want to faint on the way to your mailbox), not less all around. Besides, for the rest of that more than needed food, it'll end up in the toilet, not your sides.
Eat too little of the other nutrients, congrats, your body will now disolve the less important parts to keep the other parts going. Even getting rid of fat only has so much of an effect, because your body treats that like a starving situation too. It's response in that case, even though it won't break down your muscles and bone mass, will be to hold on to every bit of fat that does make it in your system and tell you you need to eat. You can lose weight this way, if you ONLY cut fat and make sure to eat it again once your body breaks down enough of those reserves, but putting your body in that state of distress isn't the way to go. I'd recommend just cutting down a bit and excercising more than anything.
But even there, there's something to keep in mind. Muscle group targetting may strengthen specific muscles, but it will not burn the fat near the muscles. Your body doesn't work that way. The fat is taken in a specific order and sent through the bloodstream, and it really doesn't care where the signal is coming from. You can't "fat target" with excercise because YOUR BODY DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT (well unless you've been doing some sort of weird tech to it). Further, all it'll do is break down fatty... fat places. Whatever your body shape is outside of that, it'll still be that. You can slim yourself down but you can't reshape your head into a heart. Life, as in life forms, are not perfect, and nature isn't some magical cure all. It works the way it does and most of the time it gets by. Evolution in a nut shell. Can't expect miracles here.
Sad thing is, the information is THERE, people just don't want to seek it out. Too many people are content to wait for information to come to them instead of realizing you have to put some effort into it.
But my point was really that too many people try ADDING food to their diet without removing anything because they think that, I guess, healthy food has a negative mass. Wish it did, we could hold open wormholes with it, but all it does is add less fat.
Eating less FAT is the healthy thing (to an extent, it's still needed unless you want to faint on the way to your mailbox), not less all around. Besides, for the rest of that more than needed food, it'll end up in the toilet, not your sides.
Eat too little of the other nutrients, congrats, your body will now disolve the less important parts to keep the other parts going. Even getting rid of fat only has so much of an effect, because your body treats that like a starving situation too. It's response in that case, even though it won't break down your muscles and bone mass, will be to hold on to every bit of fat that does make it in your system and tell you you need to eat. You can lose weight this way, if you ONLY cut fat and make sure to eat it again once your body breaks down enough of those reserves, but putting your body in that state of distress isn't the way to go. I'd recommend just cutting down a bit and excercising more than anything.
But even there, there's something to keep in mind. Muscle group targetting may strengthen specific muscles, but it will not burn the fat near the muscles. Your body doesn't work that way. The fat is taken in a specific order and sent through the bloodstream, and it really doesn't care where the signal is coming from. You can't "fat target" with excercise because YOUR BODY DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT (well unless you've been doing some sort of weird tech to it). Further, all it'll do is break down fatty... fat places. Whatever your body shape is outside of that, it'll still be that. You can slim yourself down but you can't reshape your head into a heart. Life, as in life forms, are not perfect, and nature isn't some magical cure all. It works the way it does and most of the time it gets by. Evolution in a nut shell. Can't expect miracles here.
Sad thing is, the information is THERE, people just don't want to seek it out. Too many people are content to wait for information to come to them instead of realizing you have to put some effort into it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)