What Do Exercise, Sleep, Genes, Viruses, and Stress Have in Common?

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What Do Exercise, Sleep, Genes, Viruses, and Stress Have in Common?


What do exercise, sleep, genes, viruses and stress have in common? Nearly everything when it comes to developing a weight loss regiment and an effective diet plan.
Let's look at some facts. It is a fact some people have twice as many fat cells of other people according to Kirsty Spalding, PhD, of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, but, she reiterates that could be a good thing because more fat cells mean less room for cell growth. Consider this phenomena for a moment. Fewer fat cells in the body have to room for growth than a larger number of fat cells due to crowding.
Your metabolism also plays a part in weight gain. The heavier you are the harder it is for your metabolism to burn fat. If you gain as little as 11 pounds your metabolism can slow down and send you spiraling into a vicious cycle of gaining weight vs. losing weight.
Stress is a huge contributor to gaining fat cells. The hormone cortisol is released with stress and cortisol is a fat cell maker. Higher stress levels invite the intake carbohydrate-rich snack foods, which in turn calm stress hormones, but put on the extra weight faster than you can take it off. Learning to deal with your stressors goes a long way in reducing the lower and mid-level stress. Exercise, relaxation and meditation, and controlling which foods you intake can lessen the impact of the stressful events.
Your significant other plays a role in your weight. A slim partner tends to have an effect on their partner, and visa-versa, an overweight partner tends to have an effect on the other as reported in a study in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study suggests that if one spouse is obese, the other is 37 percent more likely to become obese too. The researchers concluded that obesity seems to spread through social networks.
Sleep like a baby because sleeping actually gives you a greater sense of fullness. Sleep deprivation upsets our hormone balance, triggering both a decrease in leptin (which helps you feel full) and an increase of ghrelin (which triggers hunger). As a result, we think we're hungry even though we aren't, and so we eat more. Indeed, sleep may be the cheapest and easiest obesity treatment there is.
Adenoviruses are responsible for a host of ills, from upper respiratory tract problems to gastrointestinal troubles. Stem cells, known for their chameleon-like abilities to transform, also turned into fat cells when infected with the viruses. "The virus seems to increase the number of fat cells in the body as well as the fat content of these cells," says Nikhil Dhurandhar, PhD, an associate professor of infections and obesity at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, University of North Dakota.
Overall established diet and weight loss books constantly reinvent themselves to sell copies even though weight loss plans are similar and have the same objective. Take your carbs in the form of wholes grains and fiber, avoid trans and saturated fats, eat lean protein, fill up on veggies, and exercise.
A hypnotic weight loss session can fit perfectly into any dieting or weight loss plan you use. The plans are often chosen by personal preference, but they all need one thing to be successful: a crystal clear intent to stick with it. Most weight loss or dieting plans are abandoned after a month or two because a clear intent to lose weight was railroaded by your conscious or subconscious mind. Hypnosis can help you change and refocus to bring positive results.
Bear in mind however, hypnosis is no panacea and complacency negates intent. If you fail to stay with the sessions and use meditation and the methods to retrain and refocus your subconscious mind, your success rate will be significantly lessened.
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