The One Hormone That’s Keeping Your Belly Fat

by Shin Ohtake on Thursday, March 25, 2010 • 67 Comments

Beer belly, spare tire, spill over…they’re all the same thing - Belly Fat.  And it’s the most difficult area to lose fat and get lean.  No amount of sit ups, crunches or side bends are going to get rid of it.  It’s fat around your belly and you need to burn off the fat if you ever want to see the effects of all your ab/core exercises. 

The problem is that the fat around your belly isn’t like any other fat on your body.  It’s heavily influenced by your hormones and in order for you to make real changes in that area, you’re going to have to take charge of your hormones.  And this is the difficult part…first you have to know which hormones are doing the damage and then you have to learn how to control these hormones and lastly, you have to implement these changes if you ever want your belly fat to go away. 

Now, there’s few key hormones that affect your belly fat, but there’s one in particular that really makes a difference.  It’s a powerful hormone that is essential to your body’s metabolic functions but it can also easily get out of balance and cause havoc to your body.  And to make matters more difficult this hormone increases as you age making the occurrence of imbalance, and a larger belly, almost a sure thing.  BUT all is not lost…you CAN get rid of your spare tire, IF you know what to do.  Stop wasting your time and effort on things that don’t work.  I’ll show you what you need to know, so you can take control of your hormone and really start making a difference in your body.  You’ll understand why you haven’t been able to burn off your belly fat and learn to make the necessary changes in order to finally penetrate the stubborn fat that’s been surrounding your belly like Fort Knox. 

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Do You Know That You Are Eating Genetically Modified Foods?

by Shin Ohtake on Thursday, March 18, 2010 • 8 Comments

Did you know that there’s a 99.9% chance that you eat some type of genetically modified foods everyday? 

GMO, stands for genetically modified organism.  It’s when an organism is created through the introduction, elimination or rearrangement of specific genes or DNA sequences using a recombinant DNA technique.  Basically it’s engineered food, that’s got traits that aren’t natural in nature.  It often means that these organisms are genetically altered to be resistant to harmful chemicals found in pesticides and herbicides. 

So what does this mean to you?  It means, that there is a strong likelihood that traces of harmful chemicals being utilized on these GM crops have infiltrated your body because almost every processed and packaged foods have at least one or more GM products in them. 

Keep reading to find out what GM products you may be eating and how it affects your health.  I’ll also show you how to avoid GM products to ensure that you keep consuming “real” natural foods that are beneficial to your health rather than harmful.

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5 Tips to Help You Break Bad Habits that are Making You Fat

by Shin Ohtake on Thursday, March 11, 2010 • 36 Comments

Winter can bring about an entire change in your lifestyle.  You get into hibernation mode: your activities decrease, eating habits change, even foods you crave changes.  And while trying to survive the winter blues by eating a little comfort food here and there may not seem so bad…it can become habitual real easily.

Bad calories are always bad, but combine that with lack of activity, increased consumption (of bad calories), gray skies, seasonal blues and frigid temperatures and you’ve got a perfect environment for cultivating poor unhealthy eating habits that can add inches to your waistline.  But like all habits, good or bad, it can be broken…it only takes 30 days to break and create a new habit.  So, here’s a few simple and easy tips you can immediately implement to help you turn poor eating habits into good habits so you can begin shedding those extra pounds of winter insulation today.

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The Best Way to Train for an Endurance Event

by Shin Ohtake on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 • 10 Comments

If your training for an upcoming 10 km and you’ve been told that you need to run, run and run some more for those distances or longer to build up your endurance…you’ve been told wrong.  Training for a 10 km or even a longer endurance event isn’t about just doing that activity for long periods of time.  It’s easy to think that way and it seems like the right thing to do, but what you don’t know may actually be hindering you from getting better faster.  There’s nothing worse than putting in hours of hard work and not seeing the results you expected.  If you want your results to reflect all the hard training you put in, than you better start training right.  I’ll show you the most common mistakes people make when training for these events and simple but effective training methods that you can easily implement into your training regimen to help you improve your performance.

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