What do you know about metabolism ?
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I know that if you eat small meals throughout the day you can "stoke" your metabolism.  The human body is an incredible thing... when you skip meals, it tells itself it is starving.  So anything you may eat during the day it "holds onto" and therefore "sticks" with you longer.  \n\nTry eating small meals throughout the day: banana for breakfast, handful of almonds mid-morning, soup/salad for lunch, apple for mid-afternoon, chicken dinner with vegetables... something like that. \n\nPrevention.com is a great source of information.  I found the following article:\n\nhttp://www.prevention.com/article/0,5778,s1-4-57-145-4618-1,00.html\n\nA Crash Course in Metabolism \nDon't curse your metabolism. You need it for every breath you take. \n\nAll forms of life--from simple algae in a backyard swimming pool to your dog or cat to the human body--depend on hundreds of carefully regulated, and simultaneous, chemical reactions to stay alive. \n\nWhen your body digests food, it breaks down the carbohydrates, fats, and proteins you eat into smaller compounds that are absorbed by the blood. \n\n\nCarbohydrates (found primarily in fruits, vegetables, grains, potatoes, and candy, for example) break down into glucose.\n\n\nFats (from either vegetable oils like olive oil or animal fats like butter) break down into fatty acids and glycerol.\n\n\nProteins (from fish, meat, poultry, eggs, dairy food, and beans, for example) break down into amino acids.\n\nCarbohydrates, protein, and fat contain calories. Fiber is a form of carbohydrate that produces no calories and aids in weight control by providing bulk, which makes food more filling.\n\nYour basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the number of calories you expend to sustain life--the energy spent to keep the heart beating, the lungs expanding, or the body humming along at a healthy 98.6 degrees F. But you also expend energy when you move--walk, run, cycle, garden, dance, chase a bus, or work out at the gym.\n\nBoth the conversion of food to energy and your body's use of that energy--your metabolism--play a key role in weight control. If you take in more energy than your body needs, you gain weight. It doesn't matter if all those extra calories came in the form of a double cheeseburger, two extra slices of garlic bread with spaghetti, a second pat of butter slapped on your mashed potatoes, or a glass or two of wine with dinner every night. Extra calories in all forms--protein, fat, carbohydrates, and alcohol--add up to weight gain. \n\nIf your body has an excess of calories from any source, it rearranges them into stores of fat and carbohydrates, to be drawn upon between meals and overnight in between fuel deliveries. If you take in more energy than you burn, you gain weight as body fat.
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Metabolism is tricky, although there is a way to boost your metabolism some people are just born lucky .. its in the genes. To increase the effectiveness of your inate metabolism regular cardio - biking, swimming, running etc- and most especially strength training at least 2- 3 x per week. \nMuscles are MUCH more efficient burners than fat! Thats what to keep in mind. \nKeep the workouts challenging and you know youre doing a great workout.\nGreen tea has also showed minimal boosts in metabolism as does milk and dairy products.\nComplex carbohydrates take longer for the body to digest and metabolize therefore they are great metabolizers as well... sweet potatoes, whole-grain breads, whole wheat pastas etc.
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Its mostly your diet along with mild exercising.  Wine=calories!  Start mornings with a good size breakfast, that is the most important meal of the day.  This kick starts your metabolism.  Subsitute candies, snacks, sweets with fruits and veggies.  Subsitute soda, fruit drinks with plenty of water. ORGANIC foods are the best too, its a little more expensive than regular food but its worth it! 30mins of any kind of cardio 3-4 days a week.  Good luck =)
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1. Increase your metabolism by- \n\nGaining Muscle from lifting weights the more muscle you have the more calories you body burns in a day\n\nDrinking Green Tea or Coffee speed up Heart rate. This is called thermogenics\n\nCardio. King of all.  Cardio can make you burn extra calories all day.  \n\nEat 5 small meals to also increase you metabolism. eating prevents your body from puting itself is starvatiion mode.  When you starve yourself, the body draws energy from other parts of the body mainly muscle. So by eating small meals everyday you constantly keep your body working around the clock.\n\n2.  Diet\nStop eating fried foods. The worst food ever it is cooked in animal fat.\nStop eating junk. Sugar stores as fat.\nMost importantly stop eating empty calories.  Drinks and Some juices or anything you intake that doesn't fill you up but is high in caloric value\nDrink a lot of water to flush out impurities in your body so it can function and rid itself of things than make you gain weight.(it also clears up you skin)\n\n\n\nIf you follow this you will lose on avg. about 2-3% of your body weight each week.
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Activities are good.  Drinking water will make you feel fuller when you are craving for some food.  Metabolism does slow as you age, but exercise will help get your metabolism going.\n\nSports or any active activities will help.  They could be walking, jogging, doing volunteer work, dancing at home.  Find something physical that you enjoy doing and do it.
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I have heard that the best foods that speed up metabolism is anything high in protein (fish, chicken, eggs, tuna, cottage cheese, lean meat).  Of course, you should check with your doctor before going on any type of diet. Good luck!
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Metabolism can be sped up naturally by eating less more often...spread out your portions through out the day to sped up your metabolism.
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Eat little and often - there's evidence that eating small, regular meals throughout the day, rather than one or two large meals, may help to keep your metabolism ticking over. You can also try eating plenty of protein-rich foods but choose low-fat protein foods such as lean meat, skinless chicken and low-fat dairy products.Plus try swapping normal tea for green tea as there's evidence that it contains antioxidants that speed up metabolism.\nApart from your diet you could try saunas as being very hot is also thought to boost metabolism by about 20 percent and just get active - it's a sure-fire way to increase the amount of muscle you have, which in turn will speed up your metabolism.
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if you work out and build muscle you will burn fat. building muscle helps with your metabolism which will help with burning fat :) and this theory has been proven time and time again. good luck\n\nThe human body is a funny thing. It's VERY ADAPTABLE for survival. So when you give it less food, the result is a slow metabolism for survival purpose. That's why it is important to take a break (but stay in control of your food intake) from your diet and focus on eating healthy, balance meals with exercise. This will prevent your metabolism from getting too slow.\n\nHundreds and thousands of years ago, when eating was a matter of survival, the body would protect itself by slowing down the rate it burned calories (lower metabolism) to maintain weight. In modern society, we have the opposite problem of too much food, temptation and consequent weight gain.\n\nOur body is designed for survival and less food is a threat to it's survival. You must control a slow increase or decrease of food to successfully lose weight and keep it off. If you stop eating or skip meals, your metabolism will come to a SCREECHING HALT. \n\nIf you maintain a control and balance diet, you will lose weight but your body's metabolism will finally adapt and slow down. That's why we need to take a break from dieting. If you give up and SUDDENLY start eating \nback to your pre diet intake, you may quickly gain weight because of a low metabolism.\n\nthis is why i recommend smaller more frequent meals.\nIncrease Your Metabolism Through Movement/ exercise/ walking at least 30 minutes helps boost it also.\nto answer you question truthfully, noone can give you an accurate # because all bodies are different. \nBUT if you eat more frequently so your body doesnt go ito survival mode and excercise then you are on the right track and if you can excercise in the morning that increases your metabolism for a while. the more you raise you heartrate the more of a boost your metabolism gets
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me·tab·o·lism (mĭ-tăb'ə-lĭz'əm)\nn.\nThe complex of physical and chemical processes occurring within a living cell or organism that are necessary for the maintenance of life. In metabolism some substances are broken down to yield energy for vital processes while other substances, necessary for life, are synthesized.\nThe functioning of a specific substance, such as water, within the living body.\n\nWALKING
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Running, even only twenty minutes at a moderate pace will increase your metabolism. \nAnd swimming, for... an hour or so, will increase your metabolism for more than 24 hours.\nResearch has also indicated that eating spicy foods may increase metabolism, as well as caffiene (but that's not too good...) and diet pills with epinephrine in them, I think.
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Ive found that watching what you eat and combining that with cardiovascular exercise helps to make your metabolism faster :) I went on a mega binge (for about 4 days) after watching what i ate and exercising for about 3 weeks and so far i havent put on any weight. Im putting it down to the fact that my metabolism has quickened helping me to burn the excess calories :)
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smoke crack.\n\nJust kidding. The best way would to be to eat 3 healthy meals a day. Regular excercise, and plenty of water. Eating 3 meals a day actually increases your metabolism rather than eating 1 or 2 large meals at a time.
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hydroxycut. speeds the metabolism and gives you tons of energy. Need to drink lots of water though.
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As Beare85 said, the matter comes in as nutrients or food. Metabolism consists a series of reactions that happens in the body and in cells, taking in food (potato, beef and so on), brakes them down into the smallest biological molecules (particles such as proteins, carbohydrates, fat, and other minerals and vita mines, while storing the energy of those bonds), then uses them as building blocks for their functions. In the body, a lot of the breaking down happens in the digestive system, and is spread through the body in the blood. Cells absorb nitriente mostly as building blocks already. Cells are mostly proteins, lipids (fat) and water. It all comes from food.
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Metabolism is basically a measure of the body's ability to use oxygen to burn up fuel abtained from food.  Thhe body has a survival mechanism to compensate for too little or too much food over a significant period of time.  For example, a person can fast for a day drinking only water or longer under medical supervision.  During that time, the body conserves fuel (fat) by lowering its metabolic rate.  After about a month of fasting, the body may suffer starvation where body tissue including heart muscle begin to be used up as fuel.  That can be very dangerous and depends on initial body weight.
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Exercise regularly; eat 6 small meals throughout the day to keep your metabolism active; drink LOTS of water. Water helps the kidneys and liver function correctly. The liver plays an important role in breaking down fatty substances. Eat fruits and vegetables, but avoid those that are high in sugar, like grapes.