4 Ways To Supercharge Your Metabolism

There is a simple explanation for the middle-age spread: our metabolisms slow by 5 percent each decade after the age of forty. Slowly, but surely, we pack on an extra five to ten pounds a year as our bodies become less efficient at burning calories.

And there are plenty of other factors that can affect our metabolism: motherhood, illness, certain medications, and metabolic disorders such as insulin resistance. To understand what causes insulin resistance check out this link.

But we can fight back! With proper nutrition, the right nutrients, a little exercise, and a good night's sleep we can all become calorie burning machines at any age.

Eat Protein and Eat Often

Never eat fewer than 1,000 calories per day. Our metabolisms thrive on food. Eat three protein-packed meals and two protein snacks per day. Snacking will actually give your metabolism a boost while protein provides a thermal (fat burning) affect superior to that of carbohydrates. Eating enough protein also helps to build and maintain muscle mass, another important factor in revving up the metabolism. Eat as often as every two to three hours. Never allow more than five hours between meals. Fish, turkey, nuts, low-fat cheese, avocados, and eggs are excellent choices. And don't forget to spice it up! Many studies have shown that spicy foods, like hot peppers, can boost metabolism.

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Comments

[JFaye]

Excellent article ... However, does anyone have info on how to reverse impact of cortisol ... for those of us who contend with inherrently stressful lives? Thank you.

[ErikW65]

One easy way to speed up your metabolism: try drinking 32 oz. of water as soon as you wake up every day. To raise the temperature of that water to 98.6 degrees will require your body to burn over 100 British Thermal Units (calories) just like that.

Drinking lots of pure water is critical to increasing metabolism and losing unwanted fat.

I like to take Carnitine, Guarana, and Conjugated Linoleic Acid supplements with that first huge chug of water. This combo burns fat really well for me. I'm not hungry for about 3 hours after that, and yet full of energy.

[jccekr]

Palins daughters boyfriend is not a statutory rapists as stated by one commenter. She is 17 and he is 18, In all states I could find laws on this is NOT rape. This person said that the republicans would be parading a rapists across the stage tonight, Once again it is not rape!!! Why do you have to keep commenting on her daughters life and Most wont even ask Obama WHY he continues to be friends with a proven terrorist? these are the questions that need to be asked. All families have children problems at one time or another, the daughter is not running for vice-president. The democrats never found problems with Clinton and his adultry, or Obama and his Friends, Think about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[cmp]

She's 5 mo pregnant at 17. Was she 16 when she became pregnant ? If so, then he could have been 17.

[justobserve]

"ask Obama WHY he continues to be friends with a proven terrorist":
Because that friend is not a criminal now irrespective of what he did in the past when Obama was, maybe, 2 years old.
You are right in saying we shouldn't talk about candidates' children.
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[knerd]

Why was America friends with the proven terrorist Saddam Hussein?

You are focusing on one commenter in cyberspace. Neither you nor the commenter is listening to Senator Obama who has ordered the press and the American people to "back off" the candidates' families.

You are technically literate, but you read with inattention and to confirm your own prejudices.

[RichDavid]

jccekr....I guess Republicans never found problems with Bush & Cheney as murders either, think about it!!!!!!!!!

[igiveup]

What does Palin's daughter's boyfriend have to do with "4 Ways To Supercharge Your Metabolism"?

Although I do suppose that if my husband were an 18-year-old, my metabolism might be A LOT higher than it is now! ;-)

[deevee]

That's what I was going to ask!

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[maxfax]

Good info.

[Jazz42]

Great article.
Thank you,

[Baggaratz]

Well I found the article and it was very good. At the age of 49 I still can't believe how it seems as if I gain weight when I'm standing still. It's true that at this age you have to exercise a whole lot more. My husband and I have solved that problem with bicycling and cross-country skiing. It's really fun and burns a lot of calories, plus it makes you feel strong and energetic. I highly recommend it!

[AzRealProgressive]

I have to agree. In one six month period when I was 47 I gained 25 pounds. I had stopped running and exercising due to an injury. Now I can't get it off.

[ivangoldstein]

For anyone that really wants to lose weight read Protein Power by Dr. Eades or the Paleo Diet by Dr. Loren Cordain.

The reason why a majority of Amercians are overweight is the diet. When we transitioned from hunter-gatherers to farmers there was an incredible drop in health. The average height dropped 4-6 inches. The health of the population plummeted.

The ideal diet for the human body is the stone age diet, an eating style that served us well from 2.5 million years ago to about 9,000 years ago when the Agricultural Revolution began.

I began doing this a few months ago and dropped 20 lbs in the first 2 months and ADDED lean muscle. Anyone who tries this for 1-2 months will never want to go back because you will feel BETTER than you have ever felt in your life.

Eat lean meat (chicken, turkey, wild salmon, grass-fed beef, etc)

Eat vegetables, fruit, and nuts

DO NOT EAT grain, grain products, legumes, starchy vegetables, salt, and dairy.

I tend to eat like this all week and take Saturday off where I have 2 free meals and also add dairy. It sounds crazy but your body will adjust after week or two and you will stop overeating.

I feel like more relaxed, stronger, faster, and my moods aren't as up and down anymore

[kpav]

On the overall topic of protein, we must be careful: our bodies need protein from the foods we eat. However, once it takes the needed protein, it can store excess protein as fat. So everything in moderation.

A nutritious diet includes lots of veggies and fruit (not fruit juice - too much sugar), whole grains (100%), fish, and chicken. Eat very little red meat - it has saturated fat, which is very bad for us. We should not drink regular milk, but low fat or 1%. or soy milk. A little cheese is good for us, alot is bad (again, saturated fat). Butter is a no no, too.

Always include 30 to 60 minutes of cardiovascular exercise most days of the week. Resistance training in the form of weight training is good, too. The worst thing ever to happen to the American diet is all-you-can eat buffets - terrible.

[ivangoldstein]

Vegetables, Fruit, Fish, and Chicken....sure.


Red Meat (Grass Fed not Grain Fed) > Grain

Grain is a recent addition to the human diet and is not healthy. It has far less nutritional value than vegetables and is mankind's first junk food.

[urnumbersix]

ENOUGH! Saturated fats are NOT bad for us. Excess calories are bad. The fat that naturally comes with meats & dairy is there to help us digest the food. Yes, we should be concerned about what the animals we eat, eat -- it should be as close to what they ate before they became domesticated animals. But Nature's set-up of food is the best - when man starts "fooling around" with food is when the trouble metabolizing food begins. Too often man's answer to make the laboratory-food palatable is to sweeten it. Now, unadulterated food is expensive!

We should eat whole foods (yes, whole milk too), of high quality -- just eat much less of it. It's the way the rest of the world eats. (Apologies to those who literally do not have enough food to eat.)

Don't forget - Fat is also where the flavor is, and often the texture. Americans go crazy eating far too much volume of food because America has removed the naturally good taste from our food through Agribusiness and nutritional advice ("low fat"). We've developed a collective sweet tooth from lab-foods making us ever-hungry. We are substituting volume because we are getting little satisfaction from the taste, smell and feel of our food. Instead of being pleased with "a little," we settle for "a lot" of food instead. And the never-ending American "chase for satiety" is on!

Go back to basics.

[humanoid]

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[RovesBrain]

Here is the whole article;
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[mooph]

"To understand what causes insulin resistance check out this link."

No link here either.