HEALTH REPORT
Fat-burning FAQs
Get your body to burn more fat and kilojoules, while easily building muscle and supercharging your energy levels.
The old saying, “You are what you eat” is never truer than when it is applied to supercharging a sluggish metabolism, helping to lose weight and revving up your energy. Your metabolism is strengthened with protein, and certain foods, notably ginger and chilli, help to increase metabolic activity. Amino acids like acetyl l-carnitine help to build muscle and lose weight, while coffee bean and green tea extracts help to corral fat and cholesterol. Support your fat-burning nutrition program with a sensible strengthening regime, including stretching, high-intensity weight training to take weight off and low-intensity resistance training to build muscle. To add balance, try tai chi for increasing your range of motion and yoga to improve flexibility and stamina. What is thermogenesis? Thermogenesis is defined as the ‘thermic’, or heat, effect generated and expended in the body when you eat, digest, absorb food and eliminate waste. Thermogenesis can play a role in weight loss because it results in a higher expenditure of kilojoules and higher fat-burning, and can lead to ketosis. Ketosis is a normal metabolic state where, if carbohydrate intake is reduced, the body accesses its fat stores and burns glucose from triglycerides for energy rather than using blood sugar. This results in the formation of ketones, acids which are then eliminated in the urine. The popular Keto Diet works by giving the body a diet high in fat and protein and low in carbohydrates, which creates this metabolic state. Can thermogenic nutritional supplements help with fat burning? These supplements are effective in curbing appetite and improving metabolism, energy and fat-burning. They are particularly useful at reducing stubborn belly fat.
Support your fat-burning nutrition program with a sensible strengthening regime, including stretching, high-intensity weight training to take weight off and low-intensity resistance training to build muscle.
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