CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Fat Burning Conditions
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Your activity level, the food you eat, and the level of your metabolism determine the amount of fat your body burns. You must manage these conditions in order to make your body draw on its stored fat and use it for energy.
As long as you are including multi grain breads, vegetables, legumes, wheat, potatoes, and pasta in your meals, your liver will process the carbohydrates and store it as glycogen. The glycogen will be transformed to glucose and distributed to your muscles as needed. Since your liver can store only a certain amount of glycogen, your body prefers to use its stored fat for energy and preserve its glycogen.
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As long as your exercise is not rapid and strenuous, your body will save its glycogen and use stored fat. Under these conditions, your body will continually take fat from storage and deposit it into your bloodstream where it can be burned as energy.
If you exercise twenty minutes or more per session and eat balanced meals, you will increase the rate at which your body burns fat. However, when you eat food with added sugar, excessive amounts of starch, or added fat, the fat burning conditions no longer exist. Everything comes to a screeching halt.
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As soon as your body detects a certain level of sugar in your bloodstream, a message will go to the brain signaling that there is no longer a need to preserve your glucose reserve. Your body will stop using stored fat and start using the sugar. Also, when excess fat enters the blood stream, the body simply stores the excess fat into the fat cells immediately. It makes no difference if your body has stored fifteen pounds of fat or 300 pounds. The signals work the same for everyone every time. It makes no difference if the sugar you consume is table sugar (raw sugar), fruit sugar, or that from rice. The only sugar products that you can consume and have your body continue to burn stored fat is that produced from foods containing complex carbohydrates such as whole grain, and multi grain breads, vegetables, pasta, and brown rice.
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When you use continuous exercise activity for burning stored fat, your intensity level should not be so high that your body is forced to use its reserve glycogen instead of its fat reserve. Yet, the intensity level should be high enough to burn enough calories so that you can reach your weight loss goal.
As long as you are including multi grain breads, vegetables, legumes, wheat, potatoes, and pasta in your meals, your liver will process the carbohydrates and store it as glycogen. The glycogen will be transformed to glucose and distributed to your muscles as needed. Since your liver can store only a certain amount of glycogen, your body prefers to use its stored fat for energy and preserve its glycogen.
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As long as your exercise is not rapid and strenuous, your body will save its glycogen and use stored fat. Under these conditions, your body will continually take fat from storage and deposit it into your bloodstream where it can be burned as energy.
If you exercise twenty minutes or more per session and eat balanced meals, you will increase the rate at which your body burns fat. However, when you eat food with added sugar, excessive amounts of starch, or added fat, the fat burning conditions no longer exist. Everything comes to a screeching halt.
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As soon as your body detects a certain level of sugar in your bloodstream, a message will go to the brain signaling that there is no longer a need to preserve your glucose reserve. Your body will stop using stored fat and start using the sugar. Also, when excess fat enters the blood stream, the body simply stores the excess fat into the fat cells immediately. It makes no difference if your body has stored fifteen pounds of fat or 300 pounds. The signals work the same for everyone every time. It makes no difference if the sugar you consume is table sugar (raw sugar), fruit sugar, or that from rice. The only sugar products that you can consume and have your body continue to burn stored fat is that produced from foods containing complex carbohydrates such as whole grain, and multi grain breads, vegetables, pasta, and brown rice.
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When you use continuous exercise activity for burning stored fat, your intensity level should not be so high that your body is forced to use its reserve glycogen instead of its fat reserve. Yet, the intensity level should be high enough to burn enough calories so that you can reach your weight loss goal.
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