Metabolism
There isn't a more frequently used word in the weight loss
(and weight gain) vocabulary than this.
Yes, 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, unfortunately, they do not influence or take into account
metabolism (see, 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!
Understanding Metabolism
Many people simply don’t understand the concept of
metabolism and metabolic change. This is
not 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.
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, 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 claims).
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 quickly 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.
sponsored by
No comments:
Post a Comment