Define Metabolism
Make Your Metabolism - Your Fat Loss Ally!
Metabolism is a chemical process that involves the conversion of the food you eat into energy to support life.
Your Metabolic Rate is a measure of the total amount of energy (Calories) that your body burns over time, it varies from person to person and is affected by a number of factors including age, gender and genetics.
Understanding your Metabolic Rate is important as it will give you the knowledge that you need to increase metabolism and get you onto the path to successful and permanent weight loss.
There is not much to learn and it is easy to understand so read on:-Your Metabolic Rate can be divided into 3 parts.
- 1. Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR). - Your BMR is the energy that your body needs while at rest to support the vital organs that keep you alive, these include your brain, heart, lungs, kidneys, liver and muscles.
The BMR is by far the biggest energy requirement your body has, using up to 70% of the total energy that you metabolise. It is important to understand that your muscles account for a large part of your BMR, as they burn calories even while you are asleep just to support and maintain them.
This means that your muscle mass has a big influence on your metabolism with only small increases in muscle mass having a large increase in BMR and your total calorie consumption - even while you are doing nothing!
- 2. Physical activity. - The physical activity that we do in our daily lives, such as walking, lifting, climbing stairs and exercising makes up approximately 20% of the average person's metabolic rate.
- 3. Thermic effect of food - Energy is needed to break down and digest the food that you eat so that it can be metabolised by the body. Different foods require different amounts of energy and it makes up a relatively small amount of your metabolic rate.
You should now be able to see that although there are some factors that affect your Metabolic Rate that we can't control, there are areas that we can influence with some having significant results!.
In Boost Metabolism I will show you how, with this information, you can increase metabolism and turn you body into a fat burning furnace.
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