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Health Fitness Articles
Slim waist because of high metabolism
Control metabolism to lose weight
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Metabolism Explained
Metabolism actually refers to the chemical
processes within your living cells. It is the process of how your body fat is
stored or broken down, how proteins are produced or destroyed and so on and so
forth.
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How does metabolism affect your weight?
Imagine your body as a living furnace. If the fire
in a furnace is burning intensively, then it will need to be fed with lots of
fuel to get the fire to continue to rage. This analogy is similar to people
who have high metabolic rate. Their body consume a lot of fuel (calories) to
feed the metabolic processes in the cells and the energy in the fuel is thus
converted into other forms of energy such as heat and movement.
It is
this reason that a lot of calories are burnt away instead of being stored as
fat. This is also the reason why, people with high metabolism do not gain
weight easily and people with low metabolism finds it difficult to lose
weight.
People with an overactive thyroid gland also
tend to have a higher metabolic rate as thyroid hormones stimulate metabolism.
Therefore these people tend to be thin and are more intolerant to heat (since
the body is producing more heat than usual) and they may be more irritable and
restless.
When you exercise, your muscles
burn up more fuel and thus increase your metabolic rate. This is the reason
why you can lose weight with exercising. It does not matter whether you have a
low or high metabolic rate, the energy required to jog, say 3 miles is the
same. Therefore those of you with low metabolic rate can raise your metabolic
rate through exercising regularly.
Supplements to increase your metabolic rate – Do they work?
There are many health supplements in the market
that claim to raise your metabolic rate. Do they really work? Personally, I
will be wary of such products because if these so called supplements can
increase your metabolic rate significantly, they probably will not be sold
over the counter and made only available through your doctor's supervision as
self medication with effective metabolic increasing drugs can be dangerous.
For example, drugs that can raise
your metabolism significantly such as thyroid hormones or phentermine tend to
be prescription drugs as they have side effects. Caffeine taken in large
amount can also raise your metabolic rate, but it also causes irritability and
restlessness.
If you have a slow metabolic rate, it
can easily be overcome by exercising and increasing your physical activities
instead of relying on over the counter drugs. Do remember that your total
energy expenditure is the sum of the energy expended through your basal
metabolism and your physical activities.
So choose to exercise more regularly
because exercising regularly not only raises your metabolism to lose weight,
it comes with many other health benefits as well. Your metabolism also slows
down as you age. This is mainly due to the decrease in muscle mass. Therefore
the more muscle you gain, the higher your metabolic rate. Click
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Metabolism per se is not what you
should be concerned about, but rather it is one of its main consequences that
you should be aware of your weight. Click
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To
your fitness success.
Chris Chew
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