lifting weights for weight loss

if i lift weights 3 times a week and the only cardio i do is walking and i mean minimal walking, will this still work?  there's been a lot of articles on supporting weight training for weight loss because it burns fat better than cardio, but i'm confused.  is it because the toning and increase in muscle mass that burns fat? or is it because it raises the metabolism?

Original Post by helpless:

okay, you know what, now this is completely off topic and you guys are going out of your ways to refute whatever you feel the need to.  so if anyone is going to post please be relevant.

When you post a thread, you don't become high priestess of it. It's an interesting conversation.

Original Post by nameless_shape_shifter:

Original Post by spirochete:

Herbal doesn't mean healthy or even good for you. Hell, a bunch of stuff can kill you.

It doesn't help to just make blanket statements without backing it up with some examples. Herbology is one of the key pathways to optimum health for many individuals. Health is internal first and reflective on the outside second. Not everyone with a ripped physique is healthy internally. 

 Here's a list of deadly herbs:

Aconite
Bittersweet
Black nightshade
Blue flag
Burning bush
Camphor
Calabar bean
Calico bush
Christmas rose
Cowbane
Daffodils
Deadly nightshade
Dogs mercury
Elkweed
Ergot
Flag lily
Fox glove
Gelsemium
Hellebore
Hemlock
Henbane
Holly seeds
Honysuckle
Horse balm
Impatients
Indian arrowroot
Inkberry
Ivy, oak, sumac
Jerusalem cherry
Jimsonweed
Laburnum seeds
Laurel seeds
Mistletoe
Mandrake
May apple
Monkshood
Pallida
Poinsettia
Poke root
Rosebay
Spurge
Swallow wort
Thorn apple
Tobacco
Wahoo
Wake robin
White hemlock
White bryony
Winter rose
Yellow jasmine
Yews and berries

feel better?

Original Post by nameless_shape_shifter:

It doesn't help to just make blanket statements without backing it up with some examples.

People who live in glass houses... 

shouldn't throw rocks!......did i win?!

shooooouuuld walk around naked.....

I won......sorry you gotta take a back seat sugarbabie...lol

damn....ok you win

You both win. Sugarbabie, you win... a rock (but it's an all-natural rock, with some moss on it - that's like an herb, right?). And potter? You win the chance to walk around your house naked. Congrats. :)

Original Post by amethystgirl:

You both win. Sugarbabie, you win... a rock (but it's an all-natural rock, with some moss on it - that's like an herb, right?). And potter? You win the chance to walk around your house naked. Congrats. :)

 lol...nobody wants to see me naked....you nuts...lol...hahahaha....whoever is in the glass house should be...lol...

Original Post by nameless_shape_shifter:

1-The consistency of herbal products changes, not because the natural extract itself changes, it is because a lot of  herbal supplements are experimented with by replacing them with placebos, or with intentionally diluted concentrations of the product. And this happens solely in the western world, not in asiatic nations. Ask yourself why. 

2-I am not saying the financial incentive does not exist, but that that incentive is overshadowed by those of the pharmaceutical industry, similarly to how the incentive to market electric automobiles (especially those with decent ranges) is overshadowed by the oil industry. There is a lot more profit in keeping people sick than there is in curing them of their ailments. That is basic wisdom that everyone knows now. That is why it is important to shop for herbal supplements in health food stores that carry alternatives to what they sell in mass produced outlets like GNC.

 Re: Point 1.  I agree.  Completely.  (Okay, almost completely, because some extracts do vary seasonally.)  However, this is what makes me cycnical about what the health food stores promote.  Because they promote a lot of products that *are* constantly changing.  Not to mention some that are actually bad for you (i.e. colon cleanses).  Yet many people entrust these stores with blind faith, assuming that everything they sell must be good because it's herbal and natural and sold at a health food store.  When that health food store is a business that wants repeat customers - and so is the company that makes that bottle of herbal extract.  Personally, I'd just feel a lot better if the neutraceutical companies were as heavily regulated as the pharmaceutical companies; maybe that would stop some of the constant tinkering and make the products testable.

Original Post by helpless:

okay, you know what, now this is completely off topic and you guys are going out of your ways to refute whatever you feel the need to. so if anyone is going to post please be relevant.

a touch of humour is usually a nice lil tool to use sometimes.