Aerobic Exercise for Weight Loss

Intro to Cardio
Changing your diet and developing healthy eating habits is only one half of the road to a new lifestyle. The second half of creating a healthier body is exercise. While an exercise regimen should include stretching, resistance training with weights, and flexibility the most reliable way for the beginner to exercise is cardiovascular activities, specifically, aerobics. "Cardio-" means "the heart": cardiovascular exercise is exercise which stimulates the heart and lungs. The word "aerobics" means "with oxygen."
Aerobic exercises require large amounts of oxygen to perform. Aerobic exercises typically consist of sustained activity, which accelerates the heart rate and raises the metabolism. When you begin an aerobic exercise, the chemical glycogen is processed into a simple sugar, glucose.
Muscles consume oxygen to process glucose; and once the body's supply of glucose is used, the body begins to burn fat as fuel. This is the reason why aerobic exercise is most helpful for losing weight. Some aerobic activities include running, swimming, dancing, jogging, walking, and riding a bicycle. If you perform aerobics frequently, not only will you lose weight, your level of stress will go down
Some Positive Effects of Aerobics
Reducing your stress level not only increases your overall health, it also affects your mood. Reducing the amount of stress in your life has many salutary health effects. Specifically, it reduces your risk for many chronic conditions such as heart disease, diabetes and obesity.
Reducing stress will increase your general quality of life. Another positive side effect of aerobic exercise is the release of tension in the muscles. Aerobic exercise has been shown to greatly increase the rate at which calories are burned and accelerating the metabolism. These two factors promote accelerated weight loss. Aerobics also positively influences the body's cholesterol levels. When you exercise regularly, good cholesterol levels increase and bad cholesterol levels decrease.
Note also that cholesterol levels are a function of diet and genetics. Another consequence of habitual aerobic exercise is quite pleasant: your body will increase production of endorphins. Endorphins are released by strenuous aerobic activity; they are the cause of the so-called "runner's high." Endorphins are the body's natural painkillers, a class of neurotransmitters chemically similar to morphine.