Russia (bbabo.net), - Dietitian, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Alexei Kovalkov spoke about the role of moderate physical activity for effective weight loss. According to the specialist, quite often doctors are faced with a situation where a patient who has gone on a diet and quickly lost weight in a week complains that "the weight has stopped" and "does not move." Even with a further reduction in calorie intake.

"Sport is necessary. We have a specific basal metabolism, which includes all the main processes in the body (mental activity of the brain, the work of internal organs, and so on), on which 80% of the energy received from food is spent. The specific basal metabolism is regulated by the thyroid gland. Therefore, hormones affect our metabolism extremely harshly," the doctor said.

It is necessary to control the specific basal metabolism, he stressed. When we go on a diet, our metabolic processes invariably decrease (that is, the specific basal metabolism decreases). This happens about 3-10 days of the diet. And then the body adapts to new conditions and the person stops losing weight - a fairly common situation.

“This is called a plateau. Weight fell, and then the weight rose. To prevent this from happening, you need to constantly whip up metabolic processes a little,” Kovalkov specified.

To do this, according to the doctor, you need to drink tea, coffee, since "caffeine stimulates the specific basal metabolism." But "the most important thing is to practice physical activity at least three or four times a week," Kovalkov emphasized.

He explained that fats are burned not from the fact that a person, for example, runs, but from the fact that the hormone adrenaline is released for this run. Among the "symptoms" of the launch of the hormone are rapid breathing, palpitations, sweating of the hands, dry mouth.

“Fats are burned under the condition that adrenaline is released. There are many ways to release it. For example, get on the track and start running,” the doctor said.

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