Metabolism is process involving a set of chemical reaction that modifies a molecule into another for storage, basically for immediate use in another reaction or as a by product. Our metabolism works around the clock, by the use of our calories and by shedding fat. Basically metabolism sums up everything that your body does for you. However, many people suffer from slow, sluggish metabolisms and blame other things such as genetics. Genetics do play a key role in the efficiency of your metabolism; there are several different options that you yourself can control that can boost your metabolic rate and give you more energy.
First, you have to always eat a healthy breakfast; it is the most important meal of the day. You sleep usually close to 8 hours a night. That means that you go at least 8 hours without a meal. When you wake up your body is in starvation mode, so that means that your metabolism level is not working very fast. Eating breakfast revs up your body for that day. Your body has to receive food in the morning; it tells your brain that you’re going to need to start working to digest it. When this happens it wakes up the system, which warms up the metabolism, so that makes it ready for the long day ahead. Not eating breakfast in the mornings, your body thinks that it needs to conserve the energy it has because it is not getting new nutrition.
Secondly, your body needs plenty of sleep to maintain a healthy metabolism. The University of Colorado sleep researchers did a study with 16 different healthy students for a two-week experiment tracking sleep, metabolism and eating habits. Kenneth Wrightdirector of the University of Colorado University’s sleep and chronobiology laboratory, said part of the change was behavioral. Staying up late and skimping on sleep led to not only more eating, but also a shift in the type of foods a person consumed. So we see that sleep is needed to maintain the better metabolism.
Our Metabolism is very important for our everyday living. Having a great metabolism is not only genetic; you can control this by many of your own actions everyday. As college students, we must get plenty of sleep and we always need to eat a healthy breakfast, so we can get our bodies digesting and working early in the mornings. Remember it is the MOST important meal of the day.
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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/18/lost-sleep-can-lead-to-weight-gain/?_r=0
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/08/26/habits-for-faster-metabolism/
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