The Top 3 Secrets About Fasting That Food Companies Do Not Want You To Know

This article does not aim to convince you that the food companies have established some kind of a conspiratorial scheme to keep people fat, unhealthy and addicted to their products. Rather, this article attempts to educate you about the three secrets about fasting that make it the best strategy to lose weight. So here they are:

Secret No1: Fasting does not slow down your metabolism

Very often you would here as the main reason that fasting is not a good option for losing weight or fat that it slows down your metabolism. In this way, the argument goes, you are not taking in calories, but you are not burning them either, so you can not lose that extra weight.

This could not be farther from the truth and there is a simple scientific explanation for that. The human body needs the same amount of energy for its daily operations regardless of whether you are fasting or not, in the same way that your car needs the same amount of gasoline regardless of how much you have in the tank. The only difference comes from the fact that when your stomach is full, your body is actually burning calories to digest the food, but that amount is negligible compared to the total amount.

Secret No2: When you are fasting you can exercise better

Yes, you did not read this wrong. Fasting is good for exercise. The food and nutritional supplement companies would argue otherwise because they have to sell you their products, but think of animals in nature. Let us take predators. Do they have a snack before going hunting? No, they do not because they know that they achieve their best results on an empty stomach. The same goes for exercising, barred of course, a starved state of your muscles, in which they lack the minimum required amounts of glycogen to function.

Secret No3: Fasting does not lead to a loss of muscle tissue

Another myth busted. While fasting you can burn only fat and preserve the muscle. The way to make sure this happens is the same as in the usual case - you exercise your muscles in order to let your body know that you need them. You keep what you need, you lose what you do not need!

These three secrets were taken from Brad Pilon's weight loss program called "Eat-Stop-Eat." If you are interested in this program then you should click on the link below to read a review about this program and other similar products. Enjoy losing weight happily!

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