Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Sweating Vs. Burning Calories
The amount of sweat doesn’t always determine the amount of calories you are burning. Sweat is simply the body’s way of regulating body temperature but it doesn’t determine if you are burning fat. (Example: you may be sweating profusely while you are in a sauna but it does not mean you are burning fat.)The best indication of calorie burn is your heart rate or the Rate of Perceived Exertion. This method is a self-reported scale: On a scale of one to ten, one is at complete rest, and ten is maximum effort. Most health authorities suggest you work out from a range of three to five. When your exercise is intense, it increases your heart rate which indicates the amount of fat you are burning. So although sweating is good for regulating body temperature and ridding your body of toxins, you want an intense workout for a good calorie burn.
Labels: Calories, exercise, Rate of Perceived Exertion, sweat, toxins
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Love Your Liver: Cleansing Yourself of Toxic Weight
Toxins are certainly not good for you.
In fact, theycontribute to nearly every major health concern. But toxins can also make you put on the pounds.
Sound crazy?
Well, it actually makes a lot of sense. We're overloading our bodies with toxins in the food we eat and in the products we use every day. It's your liver's job to protect you from these toxins by removing them from your body.
The problem?
Your liver was designed for a much lighter workload than it typically gets these days. It can't filter out all the toxins, and you end up storing them in your body fat to be filtered later when your live has time to catch up. But the problem is, you have a constant supply of new toxins entering your system, so your body never has a chance to catch up and the toxins continue to accumulate and damange your body and metabolism. It's a complex process, but, in a nutshell, those excess toxins slow your metabolism and you gain weight. If you want to lose weight, and keep from gaining more,you've got to limit your exposure to toxins and start detoxifying your body.
Ready to detox?
Start breaking a sweat! When you sweat, you lose mostly water, but you also get rid of some fat, cholesterol, and toxins. You know that exercise can make you sweat. But why not try a sauna or steam bath? Both can make you sweat AND help eliminate toxins.
Source
In fact, theycontribute to nearly every major health concern. But toxins can also make you put on the pounds.
Sound crazy?
Well, it actually makes a lot of sense. We're overloading our bodies with toxins in the food we eat and in the products we use every day. It's your liver's job to protect you from these toxins by removing them from your body.
The problem?
Your liver was designed for a much lighter workload than it typically gets these days. It can't filter out all the toxins, and you end up storing them in your body fat to be filtered later when your live has time to catch up. But the problem is, you have a constant supply of new toxins entering your system, so your body never has a chance to catch up and the toxins continue to accumulate and damange your body and metabolism. It's a complex process, but, in a nutshell, those excess toxins slow your metabolism and you gain weight. If you want to lose weight, and keep from gaining more,you've got to limit your exposure to toxins and start detoxifying your body.
Ready to detox?
Start breaking a sweat! When you sweat, you lose mostly water, but you also get rid of some fat, cholesterol, and toxins. You know that exercise can make you sweat. But why not try a sauna or steam bath? Both can make you sweat AND help eliminate toxins.
Source
Labels: detox, exercise, metabolism, sauna, sweat, toxins
