subject: How Do I Get Fat If I Don't Eat That Much (part 2) ? [print this page] Are you familiar with unconscious physical activity ? It includes everything from sitting up straight to tapping your foot to gesturing with your hands when you talk etc. A century ago, people burned 1,500 more calories a day than they do now. Even those who would rather do close to nothing, had to cultivate the fields or take a long walk to town. But in these days, people born with the urge to sit find that they can easily go through life with doing very little with regard to body activities, which is sufficient to explain the obesity epidemic.
Two years ago, a research including 20 self-described "couch potatoes" (10 lean and 10 mildly obese) took place. Each participant has been dressed them in high-tech underwear that recorded their bodily actions every half second for 10 days. It has been revealed that his leaner ones burned about 350 more calories a day through unconscious physical activity equaling to approximately 33 pounds a year.
In an earlier research, 16 volunteers ate 1,000 calories a day over what they needed to maintain their weight. They did so for two months. One would expect they would all put on weight, wouldn't you? After all, 1,000 extra calories a day is a lot. But at the end of the research, the gain per person ranged from less than a pound to more than 9 pounds. And all the variation, could only be explained by the amount of the unconscious physical activity.
The good news is that if you're not a natural-born fidgeter, you can consciously work at overriding your biology. A guy noticed his body starting to thicken as he hit middle age, he put a treadmill in the living room, and every night when he came home and watched TV, he did it while walking. He lost 15 pounds over a period of nine months without changing anything he ate.
It may sound rather unbelievable, but the theory that a virus can make you fat is gaining credibility. In 1986, 2 researchers had a conversation with regard to a virus that was killing poultry. One of them mentioned an odd effect the virus had on the infected chickens: Their abdominal cavities had plenty of fat, and the dead ones were, by far, heavier than the healthy ones. A sick chicken should be a skinny one, wouldn't you say?. They wondered what would happen if they expose normal and healthy chickens to the virus. Sure enough, those who got infected developed significantly more body fat than the healthy birds and, paradoxically, lower cholesterol and triglycerides.
The findings were so compelling that he decided to test his patients for antibodies to the virusand he discovered nearly 20 percent of them had been infected.
We are still a long way from being able to tell an overweight guy that the problem is a virus. But it should be noticed that there is a wide research in the area of germs causing other chronic illnesses. We should all remember the experience of the two Australian researchers who suggested that a bacterium was responsible for stomach ulcers and were scoffed at for years until.. They won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2005. Famously, one of those researchers swallowed a Petri dish of the bacteria to prove his case...
Chicken viruses, unconscious physical activity factormaybe these never thought of reasons explain why we're fat. Or maybe we don't sleep enough, or we're too stressed. Every other month, a new theory pops up. But whatever said, even science knows right now what works to lose weight and keep it off - simply move more and eat less. That means making active choices whenever possible, taking the stairs, and being more conscious when it comes to diet.
As for those people who claim that they eat so little but they look like butterballs, all I can say is that if you think about what you put in your mouth, it feels as if you're eating a lot more.
by: Ed Moore
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