Preliminary Health Care Podcast

How Exercise Does & Does NOT Affect Fat-Loss Exercise is undeniably vital to human health, including attaining/maintaining a healthily low level of body-fat. However, the way in which exercise does this is not as likely believe. We’ve always been told that exercise burns calories—but this isn’t what really happens…calories are not little packets of fuel to burned or stored; rather, nutrients can be converted to work (burned) or stored (perhaps as body-fat, but also as muscle, glycogen, bone, etc.), and we use a unit of measurement to describe that release of energy called “calories.” So if we want to understand the effects of exercise on body-fat, we need to understand NOT calories, but how fat-cells work. Fat-Cell Basics You can think of all the trillions of cells of your body as little individual creatures—each functioning for its own survival. As such, your fat-cells’ decisions to absorb or release fat is based on a selfish agenda…in other words, your fat-cells could care less about the needs of the rest