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, […]
Visceral Fat and Cardiovascular Disease
Not to be confused with the fat that lays directly beneath the skins surface, visceral fat, is fat stored around the organs in the stomach. What a lot of people don’t realize about visceral fat, is that it is directly involved in cardiovascular disease. In fact, a recent study at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in […]
Visceral Fat turning Men into Women!
If you look around at men at the beach you will notice that there are more and more men these days with man boobs. This is something we used to see in older men but now its becoming more common in general and more common in younger men. So what’s going on! Well the culprit […]
Belly Fat and Chronic Inflammation
Did you know that fat around your organs (known as visceral fat) is a major source of chronic inflammation in people? Without question, visceral fat is responsible for many of the health issues that plague western societies, from Diabetes, cardiovascular disease and even some cancers. The new and somewhat surprising clinical finding is that visceral […]
Measuring your Body Fat
With summer hitting us earlier than expected this year our training programs for that beach body have been brought forward! The trick with being healthy and looking good is knowing that you are losing fat without losing muscle mass. So at what point does the number on the scales become irrelevant? There are 5 common […]