Do Your Genes Control Your Fat Loss, or Is There Hope?

Which is it? Does our genetic makeup ultimately determine whether we will be able to lose weight and keep it off? Or does it all come down to the number of calories we take in and the number we burn daily? Is it really all calories? Or are we totally at the mercy of our personal chemistry?

The simplest answer is that genetic disposition affects our tendency to gain weight much more than our ability to lose it. And it plays a big role in where our body stores the fat, which is why some people gain more belly fat, while others gain more in the hips or thighs. But most of us probably lose fat everywhere fairly equally. Ultimately, both patterns add up to our overall weight picture.

Most adults, as least in the West, have a tendency to be overweight these days. Type and quantity of both food and exercise are the biggest determining factors here, but stressful lifestyles and repeated exposures to low-level toxins are also involved.

Much has been learned about our predisposition to put on fat by world-wide studies of obesity:

Before 1900 CE there was little obesity anywhere

But by 1997 obesity was named an epidemic by the World Health Organization

Most experts consider this rise of obesity to be about modern lifestyles and diets, not genetics

It is commonly agreed that healthy food and exercise are what works to head off or reduce obesity

But is there more to staying slim than following basic diet and exercise recommendations? Some of the recent discoveries in nutrition and exercise science say there are.

Now we have some additional options to explore to help us lose weight and keep it off:

The timing of when and what we eat can affect our body weight, and wise use of the calorie confusion principles can help lose fat

Go natural by eating more organic and less processed foods to drop fat

Certain safe herbal supplements can be used over a long period of time without side effects to help lose fat

High Intensity training exercises can increase metabolic rate for hours after the exercise much more effectively than large amounts of ‘cardio’ exercises can. This means less exercise yields greater fat loss results.

Emphasize building muscle mass over long cardio sessions for a higher overall metabolism

The final word is that, though genetics are somewhat of a factor, caloric intake and expenditure are a much bigger factor in weight loss. The newest discoveries show us that we can lose weight and keep it off even better by eating with strategic calorie intake and by simple adjustments to the type of exercise we take.

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