Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Green fat buster, Part 2 By Zosimo T. Literatus, R.M.T. Breakthroughs
LAST week, we discussed the serious risks brought about by obesity as well as the active components found in green tea, which fight against body fat.
Studies in cell cultures and animal models, as observed in the S. Wolfram, Y. Wang, and F. Thielecke study, noted that Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) can reduce the transformation of body cells into fat cells (adipocytes), fat-cell proliferation, fat formation, fat mass, body weight, fat absorption, plasma triglycerides (natural fat found in tissues), free fatty acids, cholesterol, glucose, insulin, and leptin.
Leptin is a biochemical messenger produced by fat cells, which notifies the hunger center of the brain on the level of hunger in the body. Nonetheless, it increases energy combustion, and consequently heat generation.
Human studies reported a reduction in body weight and body fat as well as increased fat burning and heat generation, confirming the findings in cell cultures and animal studies.
Based on the current understanding of fat metabolism in the human body, the researchers believed that the key process followed by EGCG in trimming away body fat is an increase in the combustion of fat as a source of energy.
It thus increases body heat. Each time body heat (caloric reserve) increases, a person needs to find an appropriate activity that allows rapid utilization of extra energy in order to reduce the energy supply.
Increased activity, particularly physical activity, stimulates the brain to transform fat cells into utilizable energy form. Strangely enough, the process follows the principle of supply and demand, most popular in economics.
Body fat increases only when extra energy goes beyond the level that the body needs or the amount it can effectively utilize. Conversely, thinning comes when demand for energy outweighs the body’s available sources of energy.
In a sense, slimming down is about effectively managing your compulsion to eat; or shall I say, chewing more of what your body can use. It is about self-discipline or losing it.
Once self-discipline is restored, the road to a thin and healthy physique is for your taking.
Spanish monarch Juan Carlos I wisely noted: “A soldier, an army, which loses its sense of discipline, ceases to be an army.” A thin and healthy body, which loses its sense of discipline, in the same way, ceases to be both. (to zim_breakthrough@yahoo.com or text to 0927-872-3821)
