By Carl DiNello When it comes to the commercialized areas of scientific myth, no other area can equal the amount of weight loss myths. Every dieter searches for the "holy grail" of diets; one that offers a safe, simple, no-willpower required solution. Who knows? Perhaps someday one may actually be discovered, but for now there is no magic solution. There are however, a few myths that need to be exposed. You may have heard about this one, I know it's the one I would jump on right away if it were only real. Eating ice cream will actually cause you to lose weight. How? Well, the so-called theory to this mythical weight loss solution states that since ice cream is cold, and warming it up takes energy (measured in calories), your body is burning these warm-up calories while you are eating the ice cream. If only! While it is true that your body requires energy to warm up, and digest eaten ice cream, that's because any action the body takes requires an expenditure of energy. This is no more than basic physics applied to physiology. But, as they say, the devil is in the details. The consumption of ice cream, which is generally high in both fat and sugar, takes in far more calories than our body would use to warm and digest it. Bottom line; easy on the ice cream. A variation of the ice cream diet would substitute ice water for the ice cream. What's the thinking behind this substitution? Water has no calories, so you must be better off. Wrong! The energy expended to warm the water to body temperature is negligible in terms of weight loss. However, drinking water does have it's advantages when trying to lose weight. You sometimes feel hungry when the body is slightly dehydrated. Drinking water, rather than reaching for something to eat will help you to feel less hungry. The next myth focusing on weight loss states that every added pound of muscle will cause the body to burn an extra 50 calories. Not only is this myth not true, it is also quite meaningless. Put on a pound of muscle and burn 50 calories once, or for how long? If we are just sitting around we will consume around 70 calories per hour. Some have trouble believing that; but the body is constantly consuming energy in order to maintain internal body temperature, repair cells, pump blood, etc. A pound of new muscle, at most, can only burn a dozen calories per hour. It's not the muscle that is so advantageous to weight loss, it's the exercise it took to build the muscle. The average person will burn somewhere around 350 calories for every hour of vigorous exercise such as, weight training, running, etc. Walking, while a good addition to a weight loss program, is more to tone not build muscle, and to increase cardio health. The weight loss benefit is still there with walking, it will just take a little longer than with a regular program of more vigorous exercise. Another advantage with vigorous exercise is that it will raise your bodies metabolic rate for an entire day. This will result in an additional 250 calories being burned. A brisk walk can have similar effects, but at a much lower level. Don't want to go through a vigorous workout every day; than workout every other day while walking on the non-workout days. In a relatively short time, you will be able to see, and feel the benefits. The math is simple really, to have effective weight loss your body must burn more calories then it consumes. If not, the excess will end up stored in the fatty tissues. For long-term weight loss success, stick to the old-fashioned combination of a proper diet, along with regular exercise. That is no weight loss myth! Copyright 2007 Carl DiNello Carl DiNello is an Article Author whose articles are featured on websites covering the Internet's most popular topics. To read more on this topic, please visit Weight Loss Solutions! You may republish this article on your website, or e-zine so long as none of the content, or author information has been edited or changed in any way, and all links are left active and unchanged. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Carl_DiNello http://EzineArticles.com/?Some-Familiar-Weight-Loss-Myths&id=565713 online pharmacy no prescription hydrocodone xanax
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