subject: Powerful Fat Loss Weapons: Exercise And Omega-3 Supplements [print this page] It's so easy to gain weight but fat loss seems all but impossible. There are some significant genetic differences between groups of people that can have an influence on the rate that we metabolize food. Learning how your body uses food and what happens as it breaks down can be one of the keys in understanding the process of weight loss.
The best way that has been found to date to control weight are regular exercise and eating a diet that's high in nutrition and low in calories. Burning more calories than you're taking in is still the one sure way to lose fat. Learning more about metabolism has given us some new insights into how to help speed up the process and there is compelling evidence that supplementing your diet with omega-3 fatty acids can help to speed up the fat burning process.
Medical researchers are learning that omega-3 fatty acid supplements have a wide range of benefits including cardiovascular health, fighting depression, schizophrenia and even bipolar disorder. Because of the high levels of omega-3 fatty acids (EPA/DHA) found in oily cold water fish, most omega-3 supplements are made from tuna, sardines, salmon, mackerel and herring.
In 2007, a study was performed by the Nutritional Physiology Research Centre at the University of South Australia on a group of overweight volunteers. Besides obesity, the members of this group were also suffering from a variety of ailments including high blood pressure and dangerously high levels of cholesterol. The participants in the study were divided up into groups and assigned different courses of treatment to study which ones were most effective. One group was given fish oil supplements and one group was given fish oil supplements and also participated in daily exercise. Another group was given sunflower oil as an experimental control group.
After twelve weeks, both of the groups taking fish oil supplements lost weight and showed improvements in their cardiovascular health. However, the group taking fish oil supplements and also participating in daily exercise lost proportionately more weight than the group taking fish oil supplements alone. The evidence proved that taking fish oil supplements alone will lead to fat loss but fish oil supplements and regular exercise are even more effective at reducing body fat and improving heart health.
The conclusion these medical researchers reached is this. If you're trying to lose fat, keep on exercising and for an added fat-burning boost, take regular doses of omega-3 fish oil supplements.
