As a society, we are obsessed with visible fat. But it’s the invisible visceral fat that may be the true health concern. Visceral fat accumulates around the abdomen and internal organs and carries more of a health risk than the subcutaneous fat that is plainly visible.
Does your immune system play a role in controlling your weight? Recent research suggests that it does. Find out more about the how immune cells in fat tissue help to regulate weight and why weight control may be more complicated than “calories in, calories out.”
Obesity is now considered a disease by the World Health Organization and it is rampant in our society. And there is a distinct correlation between the obesity epidemic and human hormonal activity. Leptin is an important hormone that sends a signal to your brain telling you when you are full. Leptin and leptin resistance also determines how you store fat and determines when you should burn the excess.
Find out why women are more likely to gain and hold on to body fat than men and how women can shift the odds in their favor.
Before investing in creams and lotions that claim to melt away cellulite, get out the weights, Can working out reduce the appearance of cellulite.
There’s a theory as to why it’s so difficult to keep those pounds from coming back called the set-point theory. Is there a way to lower your set-point to avoid weight gain?
Cardiovascular exercise boosts endurance and heart health while burning calories and fat. Does cardiovascular exercise cause loss of muscle mass? Some fitness gurus think so.
There’s little doubt that physiques undergo a noticeable decline when a person goes from gym rat to couch potato. But, do muscles turn to fat?
