| Oxygen and Weight Loss |
| What does Oxygen have to do with Weight Loss? Oxygen chemically changes the foods and liquids we consume into energy. It contracts our muscles so we can move, repairs our cells, and keeps us alive and well. We are made up of cells; they keep our bodies and organs working properly. To put this in lay mens' terms cells basically have two functions, and to work properly they need lots of oxygen. Here's why... 1. Good working healthy cells with lots of oxygen release energy, which means they will burn fat efficiently. 2. Cells without enough oxygen to release energy store energy. When cells store energy, they are storing fat. Just like a good fire in your fireplace needs oxygen to burn, so our cells need oxygen to BURN FAT! Oxygen in our bodies provides the element needed to allow our cells to produce energy BURN FAT! If our cells don't have enough oxygen available to burn fat, they will STORE FAT! As unbelievable as this sounds you can turn your body into a lean mean fat burning machine and become thin and slender by providing it with what it needs, oxygen and water. I know what you're thinking, I did too; we need to exercise aerobically to burn fat. Well you're right if you're going to choose to burn fat through exercise then yes; you need to exercise aerobically. But do you know what aerobic means? ** It means AIR It's all about oxygen in your body not exercise. I'm choosing to get my aerobic (AIR) by breathing instead of building bulk in my body through strenuous exercise. I enjoy walking and I do that for exercise and enjoyment, not for weight loss. I learned about breathing patterns 30 years ago while preparing for childbirth. I've been using breathing for relaxation myself and teaching it to my children since they were very young. When my children are injured, upset, angry, or whatever the case may be we use long deep relaxing breathing patterns to get through the situation. In research I found out that the average person breathes in 2-3 pints of air per breath. I was amazed to find out that our lungs can hold about 17 pints! WOW! Read that again, it's scary! Our poor bodies are starving for AIR! To make matters worse, over the years because of the way our society pollutes our air. We have depleted the amount of oxygen in our air. A few hundred years ago our air was 38% oxygen. Now it's 19%. We are getting ½ the oxygen with each breath that our ancestors did 200 years ago. Deep breathing exercises can help increase your oxygen intake. http://www.thinandslender.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Renie_Rutten |
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