Find out what factors affect metabolism and how your body burns calories. Many people blame weight gain on their metabolism, most likely because they don’t understand what factors affect metabolism. Susan Bowerman, registered dietitian, explains what metabolism is and the factors that affect it. Your metabolism is the total number of chemical reactions that take place in your body and the calories your body requires to maintain life. Basic processes that are necessary to keep you alive like brain function, or your heart pumping blood, all require calories. The amount of calories you burn in a day to keep these processes going is your metabolism, or sometimes called your metabolic rate. The term metabolic rate could be confusing because it sounds like it’s something you can speed up or slow down. The truth is you can’t necessarily make your body burn calories faster or slower. For weight loss or weight gain it’s not about how fast or how slow you burn calories. What matters most is HOW MANY calories you burn in total.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:31:43 +0000
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