The Battle with Obesity: How to Overcome Weight Problems
Obesity remains one of the most prominent health problems battled in many developed countries today. Weight problems are often the result of too much energy consumption without balancing it with sufficient energy burning activities. Being overweight or obese exposes you to a number of life-threatening diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, kidney problems, and cancer. [...]
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Yesterday my post discussed how to calculate your resting metabolic rate. Today I want to share with you additional information on the subject from an article in The Washington Post. This article goes beyond the resting metabolic rate calculation to discuss other ways we burn calories. The author states:
In a typical day, you burn calories four ways:
1. Basal metabolic rate (BMR), or calories used when sedentary.
2. Thermal effect of feeding (TEF), or calories burned digesting food.
3. Physical activity (anything you do besides sitting: walking, piano playing, shadow boxing).
4. Excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC), that oft-hyped afterburn from a workout.
The article goes on to provide an example to show the reader how these four calorie-burning components can make or break weight loss.
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