How much does your metabolic rate increase when eating a 90-100% organic, balanced healthy diet?
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It can, but not very much, maybe like 5-10% more. =-(\nEating healthier can help flush out the causes of a slowed metabolism, i.e., the clogging from refined bread and sugars and such, and this can help your metabolic rate increase a little due to an easier way of metabolizing the food you eat since it's healthier. But not much. \nIf you want to flush out your system and cleanse it without much work in preparation for a new, healthy diet, may I reccomend raw, organic apple cider vinegar, preferably Bragg's brand, @ least 1 tablespoon in 8oz water before each meal every day. This will set your body metabolism and all its function straight and help your metabolism increase as well! \nHope I helped some =-)
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Lisa, \n\nYou should try to consume about 500 calories less than your Resting Metabolic Rate. BUT not less than 1000. Here are some formulas to estimate your Resting Metabolic Rate\n\nFor men, the RMR. = \n66.5 + (13.75 x kg) + (5.003 x cm) - (6.775 x age)\nFor women, the RMR = \n655.1 + (9.563 x kg) + (1.850 x cm) - (4.676 x age)\n\nOne thing you need to be really careful about is that in cutting your calories you don't also cut your Nutrition. Make sure you are still recieving the Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs, Protien, Fiber and other essential nutrients.\n\nBest of Luck\nCharlie
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They trick is to accelerate your metabolism. Diets are not enough. yes you need to eat right and if you can stand it go vegan or at least vegetarian.. There's a buttload of poisons in processed and common foods these days.The MOST important thing is exercise!.. You need to break a sweat for at least 30 minutes a day. Once you get to where you can do that easy..increase it. Once your used to an hour a day you'll crave it. Endorphins are a great high and you can have all you want since like adrenalin your body makes it!
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Yes, I think so! More fuel to feed our growing bodies-- mine isn't growing much anymore though! And plus, adults' metabolisms are usually slower than ours... :-)
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Your body will only lose about 2-4 pounds a week the healthy way where you won't gain it all back so with a healthy diet and not the commercial ones where you end up cheating i would say about 2 months to a 1/ and a half months. a tip to speed up the process is to limit the amount of juice and soda you have. orange juice has as much sugars as a can of soda. but one thing that you can splurge on is vegetables they are so healthy for you that the few calories that you get from them don't matter. also along with walking increase you muscle mass by lifting some weights or other exercise because the more muscle you have the better you resting metabolic rate is and that determines how many calories you can burn while simply doing nothing.
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Yes I rarely eat out and care about my health when planning meals. I eat balanced meals, no processed/box stuff, almost 90% organic...
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There is no evidence currently that any food alters your metabolic rate sufficiently to be useful in promoting weight loss.\nLook at the second article in the link below:
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metabolism, the older you get the slower it works. so eat healthy meals 5 to 6 times a day to keep your metabolism at its peak.\n\nstop eating mcdonalds!!
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None.  Fix your diet.  It's healthier and will last longer.
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Any exercise makes you healthier as long as you are eating healthy and drinking plenty of water. There is no science just plain old fashion maths. Energy in needs to be less than energy out and hence you have weight loss. If you want to be healthy cardio activity is a great start. \n\nIt increases stamina, increases fitness levels, reduces body fat, leans muscules. \n\nIf you want to do this it is for life so you need to totally change your way of eating and exercising. This is not a diet rather than a healthy eating plan for life. So no more talking diet cause it means time limit. \n\nHere are the golden rules: \nInitially cut down to 1200 calories. \nExercise 6 times per week for 1 hours a day. Do three weight sessions and three cardio sessions. No gym involved. \nDon't eat carbs after 4pm, never eat carbs within 2 hours of exercise or within 1 hour of exercise. \nDrink 3 litres of water per day. You can have a green tea at the end of the day. \nLimit your fruit in take to 2 pieces per day. \nNever eat dinner after 6pm.\nAdopt of low GI eating plan this is sustainable for life!\nMake low fat dairy choices \n\nFollow this menu plan as a suggestion: \nBreakfast 7am - 1 cup hot water w lemon\n20 minutes later have a bowel of oats w water (no honey) OR\nfruit salad w low GI soy yogurt\nSnack 10am - pear or apple (both low GI)\nLunch 12.30pm - muligrain sandwich w 50g tuna & salad (no butter)\nSnack 3pm - low GI yogurt OR skim berry smoothie (no honey or banana) plenty of ice, 1/2 cup skim milk & 1/4 cup yogurt\nDinner 5.30pm - 120g grilled lean meat/fish/prawns/tofu patties (not fried) w spinach salad & mixed vegies (no whites, carbs) OR 3 egg white/soy omlette with ham, cheese and tomato\nSnack - 1 scoop of low cal low fat ice cream (if hungry)\n\nExercise is must be intense. Refer to www.bodybuilding.com for your weights routine. Never do weights two consecutive days have a cardio day in between. \n\nCardio needs to include running, go hard up stair wells and cycling. You get the most benefits from exercise when your body is totally fatigued and this is when you see changes. \n\nTo maintain you can increase calories to 1500 and reduce exercise sessions to 3-4 times per week. If weight creeps up again due to holiday period etc.. go back to 1200 cal and 6 sessions again. \n\nGood luck it worked for me it can work for anyone.
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Well, I guess the only relation would be in the Iodide; higher iodine in the diet would mean that your thyroid glands produce more of the hormone Thyroxine and Triiodothyronine(T4 and T3) and Thyroxine is an important factor in body metabolism. Too little of it, and your body metabolises it slower, and a more than normal level in the body will cause an increased rate of metabolism in the body. What is metabolism? Go google it :)\n\nHowever, using this fact alone for weight loss is definitely not encouraged. This hormal imbalance will give rise to other hormonal imbalances in the body, most primarily, TSH, which will then affect the Pitutiary gland's production of other hormones. Not only that, your body itself will be affected by the increase in rate of metabolism, and the effects might not particualrly be good :/\n\nNot only that, too much iodine (and Potassium as well) might lead to other imbalances in the body, of which you don't want the troubles associated with it to affect you.\n\nTherefore, the best way is the plain ol' exercise :)
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B Vitamins from whole grains and complex carbohydrates are good for raising your metabolism. Fish oils, which are rich in EPA & DHA help lower bad cholesterol & raise natural hormones which in turn stimulate metabolism as well. And don't forget to exercise. Exercising improves metabolism and general well-being.
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Your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) is a measure of physiological and biochemical activity keeping you alive. It is usually measured in terms of oxygen consumption since the oxygen you take in is used to respire glucose to provide energy to drive the metabolic processes. The BMR is sometimes called Resting Metabolic Rate because the measurement is made when you are not doing anything other than keeping alive.\nDietary influences upon metabolic rate are unimportant, but exercise dramatically increases the rate. You can't eat or not eat anything that has any significant effect upon metabolic rate (unless you starve - a bad idea).\nYour metabolic rate is adjusted automatically in response to energy demand usually because of exercise/physical activity.\nThe only safe way to reduce body weight is to reduce the amount of energy-food (fat, starch & sugar) in a healthy, balanced diet. Exercise will contribute to weight loss (& have many other significant benefits) but it is eating less energy-food that is the most important.
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There's a diet that is supposed to boost your metabolism. You eat 900 calories one day, 1200 the next, 1800 the next and repeat. Or something like that. You might try searching the internet to see if you can find the details of it. Sorry I don't remember the name.
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BMR will make a difference, but nothing that is such that claims of 'you can eat ridicuoulsy more amounts of food becuase you have more LBM' are even near the truth; Muscle tissuse is metabolically active, but not a fat displacement vacuum. Based on the study above, you are looking at maximal increases in caloric expenditure (to sustain muscle mass) at no more than 100-150cal per 24hr period and that is pushing it.\n\nBMR will go up when eating, but let us not confuse that with TEF (thermic expenditure of food; that energy required to digest). BMR will only go up and stay up when there is both an increase in active tissue (both fat and muscle) as well as increased activity at the cellular level.
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You should increase your meals from 3 to 5 small meals to increase your metabolism, and exercise regularly.
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Just eat healthy veggies...a balanced meal.