General Medical Advices

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Although it must be a constant concern (maintaining low body fat percentage), becomes more concern with the approach of summer. While the focus should be on health, in most cases is in the physical appearance.

Well, regardless of the purpose you have, these are important data as follows:

- Body fat is an energy reserve, as such, must be reduced from the use of this energy within the body cells (mitochondria).
- To be used by the cells, body fat is drawn from all regions of the body, not localized.

- It is important to balance calorie intake with caloric expenditure

- The exercise uses more fat that is the long duration and low intensity, since the consumption of fat in muscle cells increases as reserves are depleted of glycogen in these cells.

- The estimated time of exercise (long term) is about 30 minutes, bearing in mind that after three hours of exercise (walking) fat consumption reaches 90% of the energy used. Read the rest of this entry »