We know that losing weight lowers blood pressure, reducing the risk of heart disease, lower blood cholesterol and triglycerides, and increases the HDL. The answer is that dieting alone is not the best way to lose and maintain weight. The following is the list of the reasons why walking, combined with a high-fiber, low-fat diet plan, is the safest and most effective method to lose and maintain normal body weight.
1. particularly walking, is the real answer to preventing the weight-loss cycle from occurring. Walking makes it less likely you will gain the weight back again because you lose more fat and less muscle tissue with exercise. Also, walking prevents the slowdown in basal metabolic rate always occurs with a yo-yo diet.
2. walking slightly increases the Basal metabolic rate, which helps to burn calories at a faster rate. Walking also reduces the production of the enzyme lipoprotein lipase, which, in turn, decreases the amount of fat stored in fat cells.
3. Walking also regulates the brains appetite controller, the hypothetical region of the brain The more you walk, the more you decrease the hypothetical region of the brain hunger mechanism. Inactivity, on the other hand, stimulates the appetite control mechanism to make you hungry.
4. Walking by increasing the aerobic metabolism of the body, redirects the stomachs blood supply to the exercising muscles, which, in turn, decreases your appetite.
5. Most importantly, stay away from any diet that restricts one type of food group, like low carbohydrate diet. Not only are these diets unhealthy, but also once they are stopped as they will invariably be, because of boredom or illness, then rebound weight gain packs on the pounds faster than a speeding bullet.
6. And, least, in order to really prevent rebound weight gain, stick with a healthy, good testing diet consisting of fruits, vegetables, whole grain products, and lean protein. Even when this type of diet is bent slightly in favor of an occasional sweet treat, rebound weight gain does not occur. This is the type of diet that can last you for a lifetime and will also make that lifetime last.
