I recently read an article about the effectiveness of exercising when it comes to losing weight. True, the most popular conception held is workouts do help us lose weight. But I guess there has been a rethink on that — workouts do burn fat, but if you replace the calories, all is lost.

Edward Melanson, PhD, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado, presented his research paper at the annual meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine in Seattle, in which he says, “Moderate duration exercise of an hour or less has little impact on 24-hour fat oxidation.”

This leads me to thinking that there ought to be a balance somewhere between how much we exercise and how much we eat. What if we wanted to do both — with the exercise keeping us fit, and the foods replenishing the nutrients. Now, what happens to the fat that we so desperately want to get rid?

My answer would be fat burners — the medication. There are several well-known brands clinically proven to actually decrease the fat, and these consumed with a balanced proportion of exercise and food (calories) intake, should keep you looking good and in tip-top shape.

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