Vitamin Deficiency
1 in 3 people may be Vitamin D deficient! Shouldn't you be checking for vitamin deficiencies?
Vitamin A deficiency usually results from malnutrition, but can also be due to abnormalities in intestinal absorption of retinol or carotenoids. Deficiency is prevalent in humans, especially children, in certain underdeveloped countries.
In herbivores, such as cattle, vitamin A deficiency is usually due to lack of green feed, such as in animals coming off of dry summer pastures or those fed poor quality hay. Because the liver stores rather large amounts of retinol, deficiency states typically take several months to develop
How do I find out more?
Can you exercise fat away from specific areas?
Personal trainers often get asked "show me an exercise to lose my love handles“ and the media and marketers have taken full advantage of this belief to produce infommercials and equipment designed to work "specifically" on the stomach and thighs, to give you "toned" legs or "buns of steel".
The misconception of burning fat from a specific area of the body has been proven by research. In 1984, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport reported that thirteen males did a total of 5000 sit-ups in 27 days. Biopsies of the subject’s fat cells were used to measure the change in fat cell diameter. The results showed that the subjects lost fat equally from the stomach, glutes, and upper back even though they only worked their abdominals. In a six-month long study of women who mainly did leg exercises for approximately nine hours per week, they lost an average of 5.7 pounds of fat. The Journal of Applied Physiology, the periodical that published this study, reported that the distribution of fat loss was 2.9 pounds from the trunk, 2.8 pounds from the arms, and 0 from their thighs.
Their weekly nine hours of leg work resulted in zero fat loss from their thighs!
In a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 1971, where world-class tennis players were tested to see if spot reduction could help in reducing the fat from the arms. The idea behind this study was that if spot reduction worked, the players would have one arm that's leaner than the other. Obviously, tennis players use their dominant arms forcefully everyday while doing relatively little with their non-dominant arms. Though the researchers did find the dominant arm to be bigger due to more muscle tone, there was no difference at all between arms in fat thickness. This study showed that working a certain muscle does not necessarily affect the fat deposits that may be lying above that muscle.
It is common knowledge that weight loss is achieved by healthy eating and moderate to intense exercise.
How do I find out more?
Contact Us
Phone: 1300 699 433
Email: info@vitamindeficiency.com.au
In person:
City Clinic
Level 1/793 George Street
SYDNEY NSW 2000
OR
Western Sydney Clinic
(Inside "Fitness First")
15/241 Mulgoa Road,
PENRITH. NSW 2750
For more information, please visit us at www.enahnceclinic.com.au
