Originally published July 25 2005
Losing fat more important than losing weight
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Dr. Pamela Peeke, author of Body-for-LIFE for Women, advises people to end the battle of losing and regaining weight for the sake of size and focus instead on reducing fat and maximizing tone, since lowering fat intake can help keep excess fat from accumulating around the belly and help lower risk for diabetes, heart disease and colon cancer.
Toss your bathroom scale and stop "losing weight."
Losing weight is like losing your glasses, says Dr. Pamela Peeke.
To keep the weight off, you need to "remove" it.
"We have a national epidemic of losing and finding," says the author of Body-for-LIFE for Women (Rodale, $26.95).
We should pay attention to body fat and bone, not the weight on a scale, which can be misleading.
"That skinny minnie who's 5 feet 4, 110 pounds and cocky is at high risk for breast cancer if her body fat is out of proportion," Peeke says.
In Body-for-LIFE for Women, which Peeke calls a blueprint for a lifestyle, she focuses on minimizing fat and maximizing tone - being a smaller size at a higher weight.
By exercising and reducing fat intake, you can stop excess fat from accumulating around your belly, increasing the risk of diabetes, heart disease and colon cancer.
Her book outlines a 12-week mind (emotional health), mouth (nutrition) and muscle (physical activity) formula to set a foundation for a healthy lifestyle.
_Eat every three to four hours, and watch those portions.
"We've bashed carbs and we under-eat proteins," Peeke says.
Eating too much brown rice or drinking too many smoothies is not good, Peeke says.
_Get a dose of vitamin I. That's "I" as in intensity.
Start with a creative combo of strength training and cardio.
As you age, you should increase the time you strength train.
"After 40, muscle mass melts at two to three times the rate of muscle in men," Peeke says.
Pilates, yoga and resistance tubing are a few strength exercises you can do.
Repeat what you have established, Peeke says, and you'll minimize your body's transformation from an hourglass to a shot glass.
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