2 Tips to Burn Body Fat Fast Revealed

There are two easy steps to take when it comes to burning body fat fast. Let's take a brief look at them.

Number 1: you need to gain muscle

Muscle is highly metabolically active. It requires a ton of calories to maintain and therefore increases your metabolism. Simply said, when you pack on more muscle your calorie requirements are increased to maintain that new muscle. In turn, you burn more calories allowing you to drop more fat from your body. The most important thing to remember here is to develop more muscle. That requires you lifting weights and doing resistance training.

Number 2: eat frequent meals and snacks

In order to develop this new muscle and drop some body fat you have to eat frequent meals and snacks. The worst thing that you can do is to not eat at all and starve yourself. When you do that, you're literally lowering your bodies metabolism because when you starve yourself, your body is taking energy from your muscles in the form of protein. This makes your muscles smaller.

If you know that increasing muscle in your body allows you to drop body, do you really want to starve yourself knowing that it lowers your metabolism? There you have it.

Two simple steps to take to burn some body fat. Don't be left out and be the one who is still not dropping the body fat you want to get off.

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How to Measure Body Fat in 3 Easy Ways

1. Underwater Weighing: This is the most accurate method basing on the premise that fat floats - think of how oil rises to the top in a bottle of salad dressing. Therefore, by submerging a body in a tub of water, you can determine how much of it is lean and how much is not However impracticability outweighs efficiency since Underwater Weighing is only done with sophisticated equipment at university research facilities.

How it works: You sit in a large tank or tub full of water in a special chair with a weight belt around your waist. A trained technician then submerges you beneath the surface of the water as you force all the air out of your lungs. You must remain underwater for about 10 seconds so that the technician can record your weight. The technician repeats this procedure eight to ten times in order to determine an average.

The technician measures your body's volume by computing the difference between your body's weight measured in air and its weight underwater. The technician then calculates your body density by dividing your body mass by the volume of the water that it displaces, minus any air left in your lungs. After computing density, the technician uses another formula to determine your percent body fat.

2. Skin fold thickness: Measuring skin-fold thickness (the amount of fat just under the skin) is a simpler method for determining percent body fat. When done by an experienced person, it is a very accurate predictor of total body fat. However, this method can yield inaccurate results if not done by a skilled practitioner or if performed on an older person or on someone who is severely overweight. Given that the results can vary greatly depending on the practitioner, you should view the results skeptically.

A person trained in skin-fold measuring, such as a doctor, dietitian, or health club staffer, measures your skin-fold thickness by using skin-fold calipers at the upper arm, upper back, lower back, stomach, and upper thigh. The technician takes two sets of measurements and obtains an average at each site. Then he or she converts the millimeters that the calipers measure and places those numbers in a formula to arrive at the percent body fat of your entire body.

3. Bioelectrical impedance: Bioelectrical impedance is another relatively simple method for determining percent body fat, but it can produce inaccurate results if a person is dehydrated, overhydrated, severely overweight, or older with little muscle mass.

A trained technician takes readings from a machine that delivers a harmless amount of electrical current through your body to estimate total body water, which reflects the amount of muscle or lean tissue you have. (Muscle contains water, and fat contains very little water.) The technician then determines the amount of body fat you have between your body weight and your lean tissue.


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What Types Of Food Help To Burn Body Fat

Through this article we will look at the various types of foods that are readily available and which can help you burn body fat. It should be remembered that there are a wide variety of foods that burn fat and including them in any healthy eating plan will help you achieve your goals of losing that additional weight.

The first foods we are going to look at are breakfast foods such as oatmeal, whole grain cereal and skimmed milk. Oatmeal is a great food for burning fat as it contains a good source of vitamins, minerals and fibers which help with the fat burning issues.

Another great way of burning fat is by eating spicy foods which contain peppers. There is a component in peppers known as capsicum which induces the body to produce more stress hormones and these in turn increase a person's metabolic rate. By increasing a person's metabolic rate it helps them to burn more calories.

Also increase your intake of fruits such as oranges, grapefruit, tangerines, lemons and limes as they contain high concentrations of Vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Vitamin C helps to reduce the effectiveness of fat. It has often been found that it can liquefy or dilute fat in the body. So because it is being diluted the fat becomes less effective and so becomes much easier to flush out of our systems. Plus Vitamin C is also great for working on cholesterol deposits as it helps to burn it and this makes it more difficult for cholesterol deposits to build up in the blood vessels. Also including citrus fruits to a diet (on a daily basis) will help to increase your metabolic rate and thus increase our ability to get rid of that fat. Plus you will find that it helps to control your cholesterol levels as well.

Another food that is ideal for helping to burn fat is soybeans. This food contains lecithin which shields the cells in the body from accumulating more fat. But not only it also helps to break down fatty deposits in the body as well. However, if you really want to ensure that you lose fat then you should eat these at least 3 times each week. This will then help the body in its ability to get rid of the fat. You will find that many health food stores hold stocks of soybeans.

Last but not least, good solid organic protein foods such as beef, lamb, chicken, fresh seafoods, fermented milk products, etc will also increase the speed at which the body's fat burning process takes place.

By all means, avoiding junk foods like donuts, sweet cakes, ice cream, soda, or anything that contains sugar and its related derivatives will greatly remove the blockage to success as far as burning body fat is concerned.

Although we have only mentioned a few above, there are a wide variety of foods that burn fat which are readily available not just from your local health store but your supermarket as well.

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Dr. Kang-pang Chan is a board-certified naturopathic physican by the American Naturopathic Medical Association and now based in Hong Kong.