Exercising activates your metabolism while reducing calories lowers it. If beginning weight loss effects are compared, physical exercise generates an increase in metabolism while a low calorie diet leads to an immediate reduction of muscle mass, metabolism reduction and a predisposition for future weight gain.

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The pounds that are lost are not always equal. It's becoming more evident that dietary restriction in itself leads to a familiar phenomenon of weight loss and repeated weight gain, giving rise to harmful yo-yo effects that often only lead to the activation of mental states such as depression and scarce health benefits.

When you follow a low calorie diet, your body finds itself in the condition of having to defend itself from starvation. This is a characteristic that all living beings have inherited from our ancestors in the Paleolithic era and is still strong in us today.

Undoubtedly, reducing calories leads to an immeditate loss of weight. However this creates a predisposition for future weight gain thanks to the activation of a compensatory hyperinsulinism  that helps to redeposit fat as soon as sugars are back in circulation within the body.

As shown in the recent American study (Redman LM et al, J Clin Endocrinol 2007 Mar;92(3):865-72. Epub 2007 Jan 2),in a situation of equal weight loss, the action of physical exercise greatly improves aerobic capacity thereby generating a distinct gain in terms of life expectancy.

The continuous scientific confirmations of the GIFT diet principles contribute to placing this nutritional plan among the leading dietary programs that create health instead of reducing it.

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