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How to Boost Your Metabolism
Introduction:
Metabolism
Metabolism. There isn’t perhaps a more frequently used
word in the weight loss (and weight gain) vocabulary than
this.
Indeed, it’s
not uncommon to overhear people talking about their struggles –
or triumphs – over the holiday bulge or love handles in terms
of whether their metabolism is working, or
not.
Doctors, too,
often refer to metabolism when they try and explain why
starvation and water-loss diets aren’t scientifically of
medically responsible; since, alas, they do not influence or
take into account metabolism (there’s that
word again!).
So, for all
of the usage that this rather daunting and biologically-charged
word enjoys in our world, you’d comfortably assume that people
understand it, right?
Or, at least,
they have some fundamental information when it comes to how to
speed up their metabolism, right?
Wrong!
Towards Understanding
Metabolism
Regrettably,
many people simply don’t understand the concept of metabolism
and metabolic change. This, equally as regrettably, is
hardly their fault.
There is so
much information floating around out there, much of it over the
‘net or through a “friend of a friend who has a personal
trainer”, that there’s bound to be some confusion and
conflicting messages.
Furthermore,
many people (quite understandably) mistake their own weight
gain and loss episodes as a matter of metabolic change.
Sometimes this is true, and sometimes it
isn’t.
For example,
as we will discuss in this book, there are scientific ways to
increase the rate of metabolic change, and thus enable the body
to burn more calories.
Eating
certain foods more frequently is one way to do this (again, we
look closer at these in this book). Yet another way to
visibly lose weight – at least on a perceived, temporary level
– is to sit in a steam room for a few hours.
Whereas the
former method (eating the right foods) is a real, proven weight
loss method through increased metabolic change, the latter
method (the steam room) is just temporary because the lost
weight is merely water, and will return as swiftly as it
“melted away”.
The point to
remember here is that some people mistake their own weight loss
attempts as being related to metabolic change; and, as you can
see with the steam room example, that isn’t always the
case.
Low Fat
Labels
Another big
reason that people don’t have clear, consistent information on
this topic is because, unfortunately, there are a lot of food
and supplement companies on the market who don’t want you to
know fact from fiction.
They want you
to believe that constantly buying “low fat”
foods is going to somehow speed up your
metabolism.
While, yes,
some low fat foods can play a role in an overall eating program
that is designed to speed up metabolism, merely eating foods
that come from packaging that screams “LOW FAT!” won’t do
anything.
In fact,
believe it or not, but many people actually gain weight when
they eat too many “low fat” products. Many of these
products are laden with calories from carbohydrates or proteins
(which are still calories and still must be burned off or they
turn into body fat).
As you can
see, and probably feel from years of trying to unravel this
whole metabolic mystery, this is a confusing, stressful, and
indeed, potentially depressing situation.
Each year,
tens of millions of people attempt to retake control over their
health and the shape of their body; and each year, tens of
millions of people feel that they’ve “failed” because, try as
they might, they just can’t speed up their
metabolism.
This book is
the antidote to that way of thinking and feeling because the
perceived failure is not a failure in any of these hard working
dieters and exercisers (of which you may be
one).
The failure
is with the medical and nutritional sector as a whole, which
has simply not provided people with the information that they
need to know in order to speed up their
metabolism.
And given the
size of the nutritional field and the fact that so much of it
is influenced by money-making enterprises (not all of the
field, of course, but enough of it to make a difference),
there’s really no sense in playing a “wait and see” game for
when clear, consistent, and helpful information starts to flow
out to people like us.
What’s
Inside…
And that’s why this
site exists. It’s been created for the millions of
everyday people like us who simply want to know how to speed up
metabolism, and how to lose weight the right, healthy, and
responsible way. We want to know:
What the heck
a metabolism is, and what role it really plays
on weight loss and gain
The proven,
scientific ways to speed up metabolism – not myths and fitness
club “speculation”; but the real deal.
Specific diet
and food items and promote a faster
metabolism, so that once unwanted weight has
been lost, it can be kept off through a responsible eating
plan.
And in the
pages ahead, that’s precisely what we cover!
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