The Skinny On Boosting Your Metabolism
Dr. Timothy Hollingshead | August 13, 2011Note: The importance of promoting a healthy lifestyle is key and should be expected from any dental marketing plan.
The metabolism is the rate by which the body produces and consumes energy and calories. If only we all naturally had a high metabolism we would be able to burn fat and lose weight with a minimal amount of physical activity.
Your metabolism depends on certain factors, such as genetics, stress levels, diet, exercising, and will slow down with the decrease of physical activity, which in turn will lead to loss of muscle, the decrease in food intake, which can lead to the cannibalization of the body’s tissue due to the lack of energy to sustain it, etc. It will show even more with old age. As patients get older, dentists should make sure their dental practice marketing promotes that information.
How to keep your metabolism running:
- Build muscle with weights, chose the stairs instead of the elevator, walk the dog at a slightly faster pace. Muscle helps burn fat and the amount of activity must match your calorie intake. There are ways to exercise that can help, such as increasing the number of repetition or level of resistance for weight training. Vary the types of exercises within your workout routine, like starting with cardio, moving on to weights and going back to cardio.
- Eating a healthy breakfast when you get up is the perfect way to wake up your metabolism.
- Stay away from sugar as it enables the body to store fat.
- Spicy foods speed up the metabolism.
- Sleeping more will decrease food cravings and over-eating.
- Drink a lot of water to help your body flush out toxins and stay clean and functioning.
- Eat multiple small healthy meals a day to keep the machine running.
- Eat consistently and never miss a meal.
- Avoid stress by all means, as stress releases cortisol which decreases the metabolism.
- Substitute coffee with green tea, as it stimulates the metabolism.
- Eat foods that give you energy like fruits, vegetables, beans and whole grains.
The trick to losing weight essentially depends on how well you stabilize your metabolism, and that the metabolism is influenced by many factors that must be taken into consideration. Ask your doctor or dentist about more data, or check out your dentist’s internet dental marketing.