{"id":1534,"date":"2023-04-10T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T15:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atp.fitness\/hk\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2023-12-11T14:06:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T14:06:59","slug":"what-is-metabolic-health-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atp.fitness\/hk\/blog\/what-is-metabolic-health-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Metabolic Health and Why Does It Matter For COVID?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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What Is Metabolic Health And Why Does It Matter?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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\"MORE THAN 20% OF SINGAPOREANS ARE METABOLICALLY UNHEALTHY\" (follow link for research article)<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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What is Metabolic Fitness and Why Is It Important?<\/strong><\/h2>

We used to just call it health & fitness but with the ever rising levels of obesity globally there is now a whole classification of medicine called metabolic health<\/b>. This includes a wide spectrum of chronic diseases from mild insulin resistance all the way to pre-diabetes and type-2 diabetes, high blood pressure, most types of cardiovascular disease, and even issues such as sleep apnea and asthma. These also happen to be the diseases that are the most common deadly co-morbidities for COVID patients.<\/p>

The world needed this now common classification\u00a0 because unlike many other catastrophic diseases, almost all of what we call metabolic diseases are those that can be prevented by eating better and exercising – or in other words choosing to\u00a0 make an effort to be healthy. The classification is relatively new because these diseases simply weren’t that common 40-50 years ago, especially those related to type-2 diabetes. But there is good news.\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to get disheartened and think that your only choices are a steady decline into ill-health and an early death or living the life of a fitness-crazed monk. In fact, small changes applied consistently, can make a big difference to your health and can very quickly take you out of ‘at-risk’ categories. The first 10 lbs of body weight you lose will have the greatest impact on your health.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\"METABOLIC HEALTH ISN'T JUST ABOUT LOSING WEIGHT, IT'S ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT YOU HAVE ENOUGH MUSCLE MASS TO REGULATE YOUR BLOOD SUGAR. YOU CAN BE SKINNY AND UNHEALTHY JUST AS EASILY AS FAT AND UNHEALTHY.\"<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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5 Tips To Improve Your Metabolic Health<\/h1>

1. Manage your fuel intake<\/h3>

What does your body actually require to run effectively? Gaining an understanding of how much food you should be eating in order to fuel your body is a fundamental skill to acquire in any lifestyle plan seeking to improve health markers.<\/p>

This can be especially hard for former athletes turned sedentary executives and occasional weekend warriors, but even just getting older can mean you need less fuel. However, matching your energy intake to your activity level is vital for long term metabolic health. This means that you will need to learn how to ratchet down during periods of time when you are less physically active and also increase intake if you undergo periods of intense activity.<\/p>

Doing this will also mean that sometimes we need to increase our activity level to match our fuel intake!\u00a0 Most of us tend to overestimate our physical activity and underestimate our food consumption. We remember ourselves being more active than we actually are. Most clients coming into our gyms benefit tremendously from adopting a simple scaled back approach to nutrition that allows them to make weight loss progress whilst establishing what their individual fuel requirements are.<\/p>

It is also important to mention that any time you lower the amount of fuel coming into the body you run the risk of depriving your body of essential nutrients. Therefore as well as understanding how to manipulate your total calorie intake it is also vital to consider the nutrient density of the foods you consume.<\/p>

2. Lose Weight<\/h3>

If you are currently overweight then the most significant step you can take is to lose bodyfat. Fat loss and better health markers are strongly associated right up to the point where you look like an olympic athlete. Being lean is healthy!<\/p><\/div><\/div>

3. Plan meals (even if it’s still take out food)<\/h3>