2024-01-23 15:21:09
The key to losing weight lies in a habit in our daily lives that we do not pay attention to and that plays a fundamental role in daily calorie burning.
When we set the goal of losing weight there are two concepts that inevitably come to mind: diet and exercise. We wonder which of the two is more important when it comes to losing weight without realizing that there are a third element which is (almost) never talked regarding and which, as revealed by scientists from the Mayo Clinic in January 2005 following confirming that obese people tend to sit for an average of 150 minutes a day longer than thin people (which means they burn 350 fewer calories). ), has the greatest influence on our relationship with the scale
What are we talking regarding? About a concept that we love at ZEN: NEAT. Jorge Sánchez-Infante Gómez-Escalonilla, professor of Sports Injuries at the European University, explains to us what this wonder is that nature has endowed us with and of which we make so little use today. “NEAT is the acronym for ‘non-exercise activity thermogenesis’, which in Spanish means activity thermogenesis without exercise. This concept is defined as the energy that is expended when carrying out all the activities that we carry out in our daily lives other than sleeping, eating or doing physical activity or sports.
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As the Mayo experts already pointed out in their research, and many others as well, “although NEAT is not normally considered when we set the goal of reducing our weight, “It is a key concept to lose weight and have optimal caloric expenditure with respect to our kilocalorie consumption.”.
It is clearer than water that, as Sánchez-Infante Gómez-Escalonilla relates, when we want to lose kilos, “the first thing that comes to mind is to reduce caloric intake and increase sports practice, doing physical exercise.” However, this frenetic life that we lead means that, sometimes, “we do not have enough time to meet both requirements and, in this scenario, the NEAT is a factor very important to break a sedentary life“.
For example, he continues, “‘gestures’ as simple as going to do the shopping walkingcommuting to work cycling, taking the stairs or spending less time sitting They can be very important factors in adopting a more active lifestyle and, consequently, losing body weight. All of this will influence an improvement in our health and will be key to preventing diseases derived from a sedentary lifestyle such as, for example, obesity“.
The simple act of getting up from the chair, from time to time, to standing for a few minutes awakens our NEAT and therefore burn more calories, as a team of researchers at the Mayo Clinic demonstrated ( once more) in a study published January 2018.
What do we do, then, to get the most out of NEAT and thus enhance daily calorie burning? Jorge Sánchez-Infante Gómez-Escalonilla gives us a summary: “The key would be to recover the following activities that, perhaps, we have stopped doing for comfort or because of our tendency to take advantage of the facilities that life offers us. technology. That is to say: go up the stairs; walking or cycling to work, shopping or any destination; sightseeing; make the purchase in person instead of ‘online’; spend more time on your feet; doing housework…” In short, it is regarding using our body for what it is ‘designed’… to move!
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