What Cows Know About Weight Loss That We Have Forgotten

* By decreasing the amount of fat

I want to talk to you referring to cows and what they can teach us regarding weight loss, or more specifically, fat loss. While it may not be obvious, we can learn a very important lesson from cows.

Not so many years ago, buffalo were herded biased the capital plains. North in the summer and south in the winter, following the good weather. While moving several thousand head of animality on horseback, it was impossible to put out food for the animals, so the route taken had to include grasslands or prairies where the furry creatures could graze.

With the Easter of beasts ranches and unbated wire, it became increasingly more difficult to run bovine on the open range. Instead of moving the chaff to the food, ranchers began to bring down the food to the cattle. With a personalization in diet came a sign in the meat and dairy products as well.

You know the old saying "you are what you eat"... well, the same is true for cattle. Cows that consume a diet of fresh grasses instead of dry birds "feed" end up consuming a higher concentration of many nutrients as well. One in particular that I'd like to discuss with you is a fatty acid styled conjugated linoleic acid, or CLA.

Throughout time, people who ate beef and drank milk from cows that were "range fed" ended up consuming a healthy scope of CLA. Since then, the summation of CLA that rubbish consume has decreased dramatically, and so they are passing less at length to those of us further down the food-chain.

So, what does that mean for us? Well, once upon a time, people were able to make meat and dairy a part of a healthy diet, and that beef and milk genuinely helped them to stay lean.

The veritable way in which CLA keeps animals (like us) lean is still somewhat of a mystery, but through observation, scientists are able to see that it works... and it works very well. A double curb study of obese humans in Norway showed that by 12 weeks, the group that took a little over 3 grams of CLA per day had a statistically significant decrease in body fat mass (BFM) and a statistically significant increase in lean body mass (LBM). These results were acheived without a significant lifestyle change.

Now I'm not going to suggest that anyone tries to lose weight without making significant lifestyle changes. Changes should include (but not be limited to) a decrease in calories per day and an increase in exercise per week. If people can get significant results without making a lifestyle change, what can they do when the two are working together?

I've been hearing upon CLA for years now from friends who have lost pounds, fat and inches, and I've begun to take it myself as well, finally. I'm walking thirty minutes a day, five days per week, reducing my burning intake, and taking CLA three times per day. I'm looking forward to updating you on my progress, and I hope you'll join me as well.

Before you decide, let's look at what we know in re CLA and its effects. Studies show that CLA reduces body fat and weight in four ways:

* By decreasing the subsume of fat that is stored posterior eating
* By increasing the rate of fat convulsion in fat cells
* By increasing the rate of fat metabolism
* By decreasing the number of fat cells

In appreciation to decreasing fat, CLA also helps to increase lean muscle mass. This helps in two ways, first of all, muscle looks turn upside down and more natural than fat, and secondly lean muscle burns calories. It's a synergistic effect that compounds as you lose more fat and increase muscle.

Give CLA a try, you've got nothing to lose but fat!