Beer bellies and muffin tops: Are you hiding behind cute names for abdominal fat?
January has arrived, and with the New Year typically come thoughts of a renewed commitment to health and wellness. Maybe those jeans are a little bit tighter after the excesses of Christmas. (Just me? No, didn’t think so.) Maybe you’re hiding under a t-shirt at the beach. Or maybe you’ve always done those things but […]
Losing weight, but are you losing muscle mass too?
There’s no end of diets and weight loss strategies that promise that you’ll shed x number of kilos in y number of days. ‘Look sexy by Christmas,’ they shout from magazine covers at the supermarket checkout. ‘Drink our shakes and drop two dress sizes by Sunday,’ they claim. And yes, you probably will lose x […]
Measure your Motivation
“Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.” H. James Harrington Harrington was writing about business, but his words ring just as true when […]
It’s what’s on the inside that counts: The risks of hidden fat
Do you have a secret killer hiding deep within your abdomen? Visceral fat, or abdominal fat, might be out of sight, but it really shouldn’t be out of mind. Visceral fat is implicated in a wide variety of health problems – much more so than the visible subcutaneous fat you can pinch between your fingers. […]
The Skinny on Fat! Are you as healthy as you think you are?
Are you TOFI? Studies are showing that a significant percentage of the population that are ‘skinny’ are actually carrying dangerous amounts of visceral fat inside their abdomen – that is, Thin Outside, Fat Inside (TOFI), or Skinny-Fat. Medically, it is known as Metabolically Obese But Normal Weight (MONW), and it is thought to affect anywhere […]
Finding motivation in fat facts- Bringing Sexy Back!
When Paula Beckton was selected as a contestant on Channel 7’s Bringing Sexy Back, she weighed 101 kilograms. However, Paula had convinced herself that the figure was only a number. It was only when she had her first DEXA scan, and was confronted with the facts about her body composition behind it, that Paula had […]
Body Measure Dexa Scanner explained on Channel Seven’s “Bringing Sexy Back”
Bringing Sexy Back has broken the mould on the misinformed belief that weight loss is the key to health. The reality is that fat loss, not weight loss is the best measure of a person’s health improvement. In order to measure this, Bringing Sexy Back chose the most advanced DEXA Scanner in the world, the […]
Metabolism – Energy Burned Whilst Doing Nothing
Your body is constantly burning kilojoules just to stay alive, even when you are watching television or sleeping! Knowing your Basal (Resting) Metabolic Rate is useful when trying to lose fat and gain muscle. You essentially get a baseline of the minimum kilojoules required just to live. There is a lot of hype out there […]
Diabetes and Visceral Fat
Did you know that one of the leading causes of diabetes worldwide is the extra fat that is stored in your stomach and is literally suffocating many of your vital organs? Both a genetic and developed disease (that is, a lifestyle disease), diabetes is a condition that is a direct result of the body’s inability […]
Visceral Fat and trying to lose weight!
Did you know that having visceral fat can make losing body fat even harder? Although almost everyone has visceral fat in their body, some individuals have a lot more than others. By eating foods that are filled with fatty or sugar based substances, the visceral fat in your system will promote weight gain. Visceral fat, […]