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The starvation response is the body’s remarkable ability to conserve its energy sources at times when it recognizes a lack of food supply. There are stories of survival that tell of people going for days, weeks without food and still live to tell the tale. This is made possible by the body’s ability to slow down the rate with which it burns calories. When the body senses deprivation, it immediately slows down its metabolic activity. For people in mortal danger because of hunger, this is a life saver. For people who go on extreme dietary restriction to lose fat, a slow metabolism is the one thing they’d rather do without.

The human body cannot tell the difference between dieting and starvation. As long as it perceives deprivation, its instinct for survival, the starvation response, is activated. During times when there is actually a lack of food, the body gradually feeds off itself, literally. First, it burns off fat, then the muscles and even the internal organs for energy. At its normal metabolic rate, the body cannot survive for long. Because of the starvation response, the metabolic rate slows down and allows the body to live off lesser amounts of energy until it hopefully gets a reliable source of food. Exactly the same response is elicited when you restrict your caloric intake because you’d like to lose fat. Extreme and prolonged calorie cutting always results to a sluggish metabolism.

The law of energy balance says that to lose fat, you have to take in fewer calories than you burn. It is true, but that is not taking into consideration the body’s reaction to the deprivation. We have to factor in the starvation response into the equation. That’s why we come up with dietary plans like eating small, frequent meals and eating every three hours. That is to make sure that the body gets no inkling of a possible food shortage. Otherwise, it will go into starvation mode and therefore, a slowed down metabolism.

When we first cut back on calories, very visible results are immediately appreciated. However, a few days of this and the body’s starvation response kicks in, slowing down metabolism and therefore, fat loss. If it is not reversed, and the restrictive diet continues, you will fail to lose weight even with a very low caloric intake. The starvation response is a natural human instinct for survival. To lose fat more efficiently, you have to work with and for the body, not against it.

Extreme diet restrictions don’t work because the body has built in mechanisms for ensuring that it survives. The best fat loss plan is one that makes the body better, not just to look at, but more importantly, in how it functions.By Mark Warrington

Long did the asthma sufferers of our society yearn for a medication that would be able to help control their asthma symptoms. The answer actually came in the form of a medication breakthrough known as the Albuterol. This medication works great in the fact that it takes only a few minutes and begins to work in order to get the asthma under control. However, the problem was that there as no good way of actually delivering the medication to the individual in the form of a vapor so that it can be breathed into the body. The reason why it has to be breathed into the body is the fact that these individuals with this type of respiratory condition have trouble taking their medication in a regular way and also the Albuterol seems to work much faster and more effectively when it is delivered in vapor form through the use of a nebulizer.

A nebulizer is a medical and health device that is primarily used by those with various respiratory conditions to deliver their medication to them in vapor form. A true breakthrough in the field of medical devices because previously there was no way of taking the asthma medicine in vapor form until the advent of this modern technology. The process works in a rather simple way and that is outlined here. Essentially you take the medication and place the right dosage which is prescribed to you by your physician into the nebulizer. The device beings to work and within minutes it is ready for you to breathe in the aid. You just have to make sure that you have checked with your doctor that the right dosage of the prescription is actually placed into the nebulizer because it is that which can help you cope with your health condition.