Brown Fat Activity Less In the Overweight

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Brown fat (BAT) is a high-energy tissue that converts food energy directly into heat, while ‘white’ fat stores energy.
BAT might play an important role in human obesity. Three studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine
showed that brown fat activity increased during cold exposure, but was less in obese people and older adults.
BAT prevents weight gain by increasing metabolic rate following overeating. Energy metabolism works through a
series of ‘coupled’ reactions. This means that energy released by breaking down fats, carbohydrates, and proteins is
captured in other reactions, such as making ATP (a high-energy chemical) or storing fats and carbohydrates.
Uncoupling occurs when the energy from food breakdown is released as heat instead of being captured as ATP.
Brown fat converts food energy directly into heat. Drug makers are attempting to harness uncoupling in brown fat
and other cells to increase metabolic rate, which might help control body fat. Increasing brown fat production and
activity might promote weight loss and help us conquer the obesity epidemic

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Sleep Loss And Inactivity Make You Fat

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The average woman sleeps 2 hours less
per night than in 1960, which might contribute
to the current obesity epidemic.
Among young women, 37 percent sleep
less than 7 hours per night and only 25
percent sleep at least 8 hours a night.
Sleep loss alters hormones that control
hunger and increase appetite for caloriedense
foods such as candy, cookies, chips
and bread. A study from the National
Public Health Institute in Finland found that
sleep disturbances and lack of exercise
increased the risk of abdominal obesity in
men and women. In men, sleeping more
than 9 hours a day was also linked to
increased ab fat. Lack of sleep was related
independently to excess fat, when factoring
out the effects of exercise or sleeprelated
diseases such as obstructive sleep
apnea (airway blockage disrupts sleep).
Sleep disturbance causes a vicious cycle:
lack of sleep increases body fat, which
increases sleep deprivation due to disturbed
nighttime breathing, which causes
more weight gain. See your doctor if you
don’t sleep well and are chronically tired
during the day. It could shrink your waistline
and save your life.

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Starvation Diets Can Cause Deadly Heart Rhythms

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Weight loss typically reduces blood pressure, improves blood sugar regulation and blood fats, and enhances metabolic
health. Rapid weight loss through starvation diets (less than 800 calories per day) often causes decreases in muscle
tone, and heart rhythm disturbances. Bulgarian scientists, in a study of 29 obese adults on starvation diets, found that
20 of the subjects developed a potentially fatal heart rhythm called ‘acquired
long QT syndrome.’ This greatly increases the risk of ventricular fibrillation and
sudden death. In the normal heart, impulses travel across the chambers and
cause a uniform contraction of the atria and ventricles (upper and lower chambers
of the heart). Starvation alters cell health and impairs normal conduction
of the impulses. Following starvation diets to lose weight is like throwing the
baby out with the bathwater—
you will be the skinniest
corpse in the cemetery.

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1 -Tadasana (Mountain Pose)

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Stand with the inner edges of your feet touching
each other. Spread the balls of your feet, press
your heels firmly into the floor, and lengthen
your inner ankles upward. Draw your tailbone
down and forward into the pelvis and move your
groins back. Reach toward the floor with your
arms. Stay for 1 minute.

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4 -Jathara Parivartanasana (Revolved Abdomen Pose)

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Lying on your back, stretch your arms out to your sides with
your palms up. Bend your knees and lift them to your chest.
Keep both shoulder blades on the floor and your knees together. Tilt your knees to the right. When you feel your
left waist begin to lift, revolve your abdomen back to the left
and lower your left waist toward the floor. Go as far to the
right as you can, continuing to revolve the abdomen and to
lower the left waist. Stay for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Come to
center and change sides. Repeat 3 times.

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2 --Utkatasana (Chair Pose)

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From Tadasana, lift your arms overhead. Bend your knees
so your thighs are as nearly parallel to the floor as possible.
Keep your heels heavy and continue to move your tailbone
down and forward. Lift your abdomen and chest away from
the inner groins and reach up through your arms. Stay for
30 seconds to a minute.

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3-Urdhva Prasarita Padasana (Leg Lifts)

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Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet on the
floor. Stretch your arms overhead and place the backs of
your hands on the floor. Raise your knees to your chest
and stretch your legs up perpendicular to the ceiling (90
degrees). Press the sides of your waist toward the floor.
Lower your legs halfway to the floor (45 degrees) while
moving your tailbone away from your lower back and pressing
your low back into the floor. Hold for 3 breaths then
raise your legs back to 90 degrees. Keep the sides of
the waist down to avoid back strain. Repeat 3 to 10 times.
As you get stronger, you can lower the legs from 45 degrees
all the way to just above the floor.

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