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[14 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Exercise:  Calories Are Insignificant Compared to Hormones – Part 1

Think about this if you exercise moderately for 1 hour, you might burn 350 calories. That’s equivalent to several teaspoons of salad dressing. No big deal!
The real benefits of exercise occur one to two days later, but only if the environment is almost perfect. In other words, if you do things correctly and don’t violate the fat-burning environment, you will burn fat. Fat-storing hormones can easily nullify the fat-burning hormones. The worse off your hormone health, the more perfect the other factors need to be.
What you eat before, during and …

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[12 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Calories and Muscle Mass

Calories are units of energy in food.
There is another popular idea that building more muscle mass (through anaerobic exercise) will cause the body to burn more calories.
This is absolutely true; however, what is the source of those calories being burned? Are they from sugar or fat?
Burning calories by building greater muscle mass does not automatically mean that they will come from fat calories. When dealing with weight loss we have to be more concerned with the type of calories being burned than with the quantity. When it comes …

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[9 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Basic Principles of Exercise and Hormones

There are two basic ways a person could exercise and many variations in between. You could keep the intensity low and exercise for a long time; you could also increase the intensity and exercise for very little time. Each action affects hormones differently.
From a hormone point of view, to create the maximum fat burning you would be better off exercising at high intensity for short time periods with lots of rest in between. This would cause the body to release growth hormone and glucagon, both fat burners. Intense exercise brings …

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[8 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Exercise Doesn’t Burn Fat: It Triggers Fat-Burning Hormones to Burn Fat

Exercise is just one of many triggers for fat-burning hormones.
Exercise n. a regular series of specific movements designed to stress and activate muscles, causing new cellular adaptations and developments – not merely the burning of calories.
According to this definition, you have to be willing to stress your muscles, which can be uncomfortable.
With a healthy body, the body will very quickly adapt to the stress of exercise, increasing its ability to handle more stress. This is why you have to keep raising the level of difficulty and adding stress in order …

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[7 Jul 2010 | One Comment | ]
Exercising for Your Body Type

Exercising but Still Can’t Lose?
You would be shocked to find out how little is known about exercise when it comes to triggering fat-burning hormones. In “The 7 Principles of Fat Burning“, you’ll learn the essentials of using exercise as a tool to influence maximum fat burning. You will also discover a new approach that is designed to burn the most fat during exercise for your body type and why using the wrong kind of exercise can actually stop weight loss.
There are two principal kinds of exercise: (1) low-intensity, low-pulse-rate …

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[6 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
Anti-Fat-Making-Hormone Foods

The food plan in the book The 7 Principles of Fat Burning has as one of its goals reducing in your food supply chemicals that mimic estrogen (fat making hormone). Certain foods increase estrogen and others decrease it.
There’s one group of foods that is antiestrogen and antitoxin, called cruciferous (cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, radish, kale, Brussels sprouts, etc.). Cruciferous comes from the Latin word crux, meaning cross, since the flowers of these vegetables are shaped like a cross. If we’re dealing with chemicals in the body, …

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[2 Jul 2010 | No Comment | ]
What Causes Gland and Liver Problems?: Part 2

These chemicals act as if they were hormones. They have the ability to interfere with the binding of hormones. If hormones are keys and cell receptors the keyholes, endocrine disruptors can fit into these holes and block our hormones from functioning. Over time as a person ages and accumulates exposure to these chemicals, the receptors that are supposed to receive hormones get plugged, reducing hormone communication. This explains why hormones can lose their effectiveness and become resistant or stubborn. In other words, the key (hormone) can’t fit into the keyhole …