Friday, May 23, 2008

Body Fat - New Talk, Old Story

Being the "efficient" human being that you are, your body displays a highly specialized talent. It can take only a little, and turn it into far much more than necessary. What does this mean? It easily means that you can simply eat a small amount of a saturated fat food, and your body automatically transforms that energy source into a super-abundant amount of calories. Then, nine times of of ten, you or someone else you may know of, does very little about telling those calories what to do or where to go.

Thus, your end result is an over-fat body.

How many new ways can there be to tell an old story? The story of body fat has an ongoing and consistent theme, with little to no change. This has been true since the beginning of man's recorded history.

Bodies emerge from the womb with the innate ability to "store" foods. Surely and of course -- during the origins of human existence, the ability to store food in one's stomach was a helpful and necessary activity because... after all, people did not know from one day to the next if, or when, they would again eat.

Developing from that fact, evolution still does its job almost perfectly, via allowing your metabolic system to produce and store an abundance of calories.

Now, even with our prehistorically characteristic caloric excess, human beings still utilize that energy through "artificially" excessive walking, running - gathering and hunting... with treadmills, stair masters, climbers, walkers, steppers, etc.

With nothing being totally "new" under this sun of ours... you can say that prehistoric man perfected the same aerobic exercise techniques that society utilizes today... even without the aid of high technology fitness-sport machinery.

Getting back to the core of it all, the subject of losing body fat comprises countlessly interesting topics. However, there remains at its essence the twist of an old story that spurns an ongoing series of new talks.

Right down to its most ultimately simplistic components, managing your body weight remains a matter of eating various foods, and employing movements to metabolize those foods.

Our hunting and gathering apparatus has a digital panel on it. And, our daily transport mode is no longer our feet, but it comes with an on-board GPS navigator.

Still, if you are looking for a new way to lose old-time body fat, the old-fashioned method pertains just a highly, if not even more so.

The builders of machines attempt to give you a "motivational" incentive to do what the body naturally needs to do in the first place -- that is, work out at a high enough pace, plus enjoy it OFTEN enough, to effect measurable changes in your body fat percentage.

Notice that the "prescription" above is a two part achievement. Neither one in isolation is likely to give you the results for which you might grasp. However, combining those two activities (just as prehistoric man had to do)... results in fat-burning achievement for you.

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