It’s So Easy (To Lose Or Gain Weight)

Gym owners, personal trainers and other industry experts know
the real truth about health and fitness: exercise and proper
nutrition is the only path to permanent weight loss! Forget all
the “get slim quick” schemes out there promising you quick
results with zero effort. Reality is the same thing you heard
from your doctor: Eat sensibly and exercise regularly.

However, recently there have been two breaking news stories that
have an impact on health and fitness. These two news items are
so noteworthy they demand our attention.

Each story is a good example of how easy it can be to improve or
damage your health.

Our first item shows how easy it can be to make small,
sustainable changes to your life that will help you fight
fat…..not make you thin, but help you fight fat. Maggie Fox,
Health and Science Correspondent for Reuters News Service, wrote
a great story on the relationship between sleep and fat. The
bottom line is that people who skimp on their sleep are more
likely to be overweight. We’re not going to print the entire
story, but here’s one quote: “In one study, people who slept
only four hours a night for two nights had an 18 percent
reduction in leptin, a hormone that tells the brain there is no
need for more food, and a 28 percent increase in ghrelin, which
triggers hunger.”

The second news item is a good example of how easy it is to
undermine our weight loss efforts with poor nutrition. Hardee’s
recently introduced what they’re calling the “Monster
Thickburger”. A more suitable name would be the “Monster
WeightGainer”! This burger packs 1,420 calories, which is about
what many women should eat in an entire day! It also has 107
grams of fat, which is way more fat than anyone should have in
one day! No wonder the introduction of this new burger caused
Jay Leno to joke: “The Megaburger actually comes in a little
cardboard box shaped like a coffin”.

Well, there we have it. Two fairly easy ways to either improve
our health or damage our health. It’s easy to sleep, and it’s
easy to eat a Monster Thickburger. Let’s make the right choices.

So, right after we get some sleep, we’ll see you at the gym!

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