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Understanding Metabolism and How it Works -

Generally, metabolism is not well understood. The short explanation is that metabolism is what every living organism uses to process food intake and convert it into fuel and energy for the body to use as required. With today's alarming increase in both adult and childhood obesity, we need to acknowledge and pay attention to the fact that it is the metabolic process which influences and determines how our bodies lose or gain weight.

A variety of factors, such as age, diet, physical activity and genes dictate your metabolic rate. For this reason, metabolism will vary from person to person. While one person loses weight easily, another will find it difficult. Education is the key to making the most out of the hand you've been dealt.

We hear a lot about how to increase metabolism. A faster metabolism means your body will convert food into energy faster. When we say there are certain foods that boost metabolism, we suppose it means that they will help our bodies naturally produce energy faster. The good news is that there are certain steps we can take toward raising metabolism in our quest to manage our weight and well being.

Here you'll find a series of articles to help inform you and provide ideas and guidance about how metabolism functions throughout our bodies and ways in which to make life changes in order to help metabolism work to your advantage. A selection of pertinent articles is posted below.

Selected Articles:

Metabolize This! What Is Metabolism and What Are Metabolic Disorders
You may have always been wondering, “What is metabolism?” Well, metabolism is a group of chemical reactions inside the body that adapt the fuel found in what we eat into energy that our bodies can use.

Tips In Raising Metabolism
Metabolism is an important process that involves the conversion of food into fuel or energy, which your body uses for body functions or repairs.

How To Treat Low Metabolism
Parents and adults often wonder how it is that children and teenagers can often eat large amounts of food, yet still remain thin.

Green Tea: A Natural Metabolism Booster?
Green tea is picking up speed in the world of caffeinated beverages.

Can You Increase Your Metabolism Naturally?
There are many ways to naturally give your metabolism a boost.

See More Articles

Other Metabolism Resources:

WebMD on Metabolism
Metabolic Disorders - National Institutes of Health
International Journal of Diabetes and Metabolism
Wikipedia - Metabolism
Anaerobic Metabolism - Energy Without Oxygen

Latest News About Metabolism:

Yahoo! News: Weight Loss News
Bedwetting, being overweight linked to sleep apnea (Reuters)
Reuters - Children who are overweight and wet the bed at night may have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), researchers report.
Kids With Type 1 Diabetes Often Overweight (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Children with type 1 diabetes are more likely to be overweight than those without the disease, increasing their risk of serious health complications, researchers say.
Obesity Rates Continue to Climb in U.S. (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- The rates of adult obesity in the United States increased in 23 states during the past year and did not decrease in any state.
Obesity rates rising, Mississippi's still fattest (AP)

Obesity during early adulthood raises the chances that a person will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, according to a study released Tuesday.(AFP/File)AP - Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers.


American adults getting fatter (Reuters)
Reuters - Obesity rates continued to climb in the past year with 23 U.S. states reporting adults in their states are fatter now than they were a year ago, two advocacy groups said on Wednesday.
State-by-state list of obesity rates, rankings (AP)
AP - State-by-state list of obesity rates, rankings
Obese Get Higher Doses of Radiation for X-Rays (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, June 30 (HealthDay News) -- People who are overweight and obese are usually given higher-than-normal doses of radiation in order to obtain usable X-ray images, even though the long-term effects are unknown, new research contends.
Aquarium hopes obese kids flip for athletic seals (AP)

A Northern Fur Seal stretches his mouth on the trainer's command at the New England Aquarium in Boston on Friday, June 26, 2009. A new program titled 'Move It!' featured in a new exhibit at the aquarium, aims to entice an increasingly obese generation of kids to get moving. (AP Photo/Eric J. Shelton)AP - Yes, he's obsessed with grooming, and he occasionally barks at you, but in most ways Isaac is not your typical fitness instructor. He weighs in at 350, eats 16 pounds of food at a time and he's only 9 years old. And he's a seal.


Obese Poor Shut Out From Weight-Loss Surgeries (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) -- Despite having one of the highest rates of obesity in America, the poor are less likely to undergo weight loss surgery than obese people who are better off financially, new research shows.
Weight-loss surgery cuts cancer rate in obese women (AFP)

Shadows of patients at a weight reduction clinic. Weight-loss surgery that curbs food intake by stitching up parts of the stomach or small intestine reduces the risk of cancer in obese women by more than 40 percent, according to a study.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AFP - Weight-loss surgery that curbs food intake by stitching up parts of the stomach or small intestine reduces the risk of cancer in obese women by more than 40 percent, according to a study released Thursday.


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