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We Should Not Exercise !!

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.... says the slimming center. The first time I ever heard that slimming centers were discouraging people from exercising was on a friend's facebook status update, reason given was it will make you put on weight. Not long later, a female friend of mine made a statement that " exercise can make you fat ". Obviously I did not hesitate to ask her where the hell she got that information from? Her reply : the slimming center. Well, I'm not too surprised by such stupid recommendation by the slimming center. Why? Because slimming center focuses on losing weight, not fat. Our body weight consist of weight from body fat, lean muscles, internal organs, bones and water. By exercising, especially resistance exercise, you are stimulating your muscles to potentially grow, which will then cause you to put on weight, but from muscle mass and not fat. Increasing your muscle mass, that also literally means melting away those fat more effectively. You see, from my understanding