Before you go blaming Mom or Dad or Aunt Sally for your expanding waistline, you might consider reading this article. During my training in Wellness Coaching, I learned that Lifestyle is the largest predictor of health and wellness throughout your lifetime. You may have learned some unhealthy eating habits, or were shown habits or beliefs toward exercise that didn’t serve you. Hoever, now as an adult, you have a plethera of information on how to live your best life. Now it is up to you to create your own best environment with people, equipment, a daily schedule that promotes only the best you!
Read below and get moving!
We all know that physical activity is associated with lower body weight. The mechanism that is commonly accepted to account for this is the fact that exercise is a means of energy expenditure, which leads to muscle gain and metabolic changes, which both increase fat loss. However, a new study recently published in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests an additional mechanism for lowered body weight as a result of physical activity.
Researchers identified certain gene variants which have been proven to be associated with increased BMI and obesity. Genetic profiles were taken and levels of physical activity were assessed in a total of 704 healthy adults who were genetically predisposed to be overweight. Analyses revealed that high BMIs were present only in those subjects with low physical activity scores, but were absent in adults with high physical activity scores. These results led researchers to conclude that exercise somehow negates genetic tendencies to be overweight or obese.
Rampersaud E, et al. (2008). Physical activity and the association of common FTO gene variants with body mass index and obesity. Archives of Internal Medicine, 168 (16), 1791-1797.
To your best healthy and wealthy lifestyle ever!
Carrie
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