People say ‘I’m so lucky, I eat whatever I want and I burn it right up. I must have a fast metabolism’ or ‘My metabolism is so slow, if I eat that piece of cake I’ll still be burning it off a year from now’. What is metabolism? The Webster’s Dictionary defines metabolism as ‘ [...]

Anyone who has ever tried to lose weight knows all about calories and how they are the bain of the diet industry. The idea is simple, if you eat fewer calories then you expend during your daily existence you will lose weight. The problem is that while most people understand this concept it seems the [...]

Do you sometimes feel like food is the enemy? If youâ??re overweight, the odds are high that you view food with deep suspicion. But even if youâ??re not overweight, you might have the same dim view. Many normal weighted people do.
Defining food as the enemy can only lead to unhappiness and problems, according to obesity [...]

Scientists have made a lot of studies to see how much fat intake a person is allowed to have and still be healthy. Some said that 30% of the daily calories could be represented by fat; others said that only 15% do not endanger our heart system, but people still do not know exactly how [...]

Deciding a healthy diet can be difficult as every single person is different who likes different things. For example, even though a healthy diet may consist of sprouts, there are some people who just cannot stand them so there has to be an alternative. That means that every single personâ??s diet will be different and [...]

The countless health benefits of green tea has been well documented for many years, and the pills have now appeared on the market claiming to not only give you more energy and help you lose weight but also to lower your bad cholesterol levels and help you fight heart and cardiovascular diseases, and even cancer.
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Several folks have spoken with me lately regarding digestion problems. We all have suffered at one time or another from the pains of improper digestion - heartburn, nausea, constipation, diarrhea. However, many of the medications that we are given to correct a problem in another area of our body can cause an unpleasant [...]

From the viewpoint of diet and weight loss, metabolism is the process whereby the body converts food into energy (or uses it for bodily repairs) or stores it as fat for future use. In simple terms, if we have a faster metabolism we burn calories more efficiently and store less fat. If we have a [...]

Scientists have unravelled novel aspects of the biochemical signalling pathways that enable the tiny roundworm, C. elegans, to modify its metabolism in response to food using a neurochemical signaling system that has parallels in mammals.

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Boosting ones metabolism is something many people try to achieve everyday. Having a high metabolic rate increases the amount of calories, or energy, the body burns on a daily basis. Without optimal metabolism the body will store excess calories as fat for future use. The problem for many people is they don’t ever use these [...]