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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
For obese, vaccine needle size matters (Reuters)
Reuters - Our ever-expanding waistlines may have outgrown the doctor's needle, researchers say, in what could be another casualty of the obesity epidemic.
3 Simple Steps Can Cut Childhood Obesity (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - A new study finds three household routines lower the risk of obesity in children: having family dinners, getting enough sleep and limiting weekday TV time.
Protein Supplement Myth Revealed by Body of Work (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Most health stores are tainted with the irony that so few of their products are actually healthy, from herbal potions of unknown purity and utility to dietary supplements capitalizing on recent trends in weight loss or hair gain.
Obese People Lose Weight at High Altitudes (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Here's a possible future diet tip: Move to a mountaintop.
Very Obese People May Be Missing Genes (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Adding more evidence to theories linking DNA to weight, European scientists report that a genetic variation seems to virtually guarantee that a person will become obese.
Obese people struggle with their genes (AFP)

Debate over the obesity epidemic sweeping parts of the world has focussed on whether lifestyle -- too much junk food and couch-potato living -- is the big culprit or whether genes are also to blame. A new study may help tip the balance in favour of those who claim that fat runs in their family and there is little they can do about it.(AFP/File)AFP - Debate over the obesity epidemic sweeping parts of the world has focussed on whether lifestyle -- too much junk food and couch-potato living -- is the big culprit or whether genes are also to blame.


Later Puberty Seen for Obese Boys (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity causes later onset of puberty in boys, new research indicates.
Fat-Burning Chemical Points to New Weight-Loss Drug (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- American scientists say they may have found a new way to trick the body into burning more fat.
Michelle Obama flexes muscles against child obesity (AFP)

US First Lady Michelle Obama (R) speaks alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (L) on childhood obesity, and steps that families, schools and communities can to fight it, during a meeting with Cabinet and Congressional members in the Old Family Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC.(AFP/Saul Loeb)AFP - First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday went to war against childhood obesity, meeting with US lawmakers to prepare the battle plans.


If you're 70 and overweight, you may live longer (Reuters)
Reuters - A few extra pounds might help you live longer if you're past your prime but otherwise healthy, a new study finds.
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