...chose is called “Foods that speed up your Metabolism” from the Natural Health & Organic Living website. This article talks about foods that will help improve weight loss by consuming certain foods that supposedly increase your metabolism. The foods written to improve your metabolism and help burn fat are: hot peppers, whole grains, broccoli, soups, green tea, apples, pears, spices, citrus fruits, foods high in calcium, foods high in Omega-3’s, and purified water. All of these foods are said to have health benefits including boosting your metabolism and helping you burn body fat. Other ways to boost your metabolism are also listing such as refraining from sugar filled soda, energy drinks, and other processed foods. Also, getting plenty of sleep is high on the list. Performing cardiovascular exercise on a daily basis also improves metabolism instantly, and even a light weight exercise such as walking for fifteen minutes a day has great benefits, contrary to popular belief. For people looking for a more intense way of boosting metabolism, performing a colon cleanse and a liver and gallbladder cleanse are also options. These methods not only increase metabolism but also improve overall health. This article relates to this biology course because we have been studying metabolism. Metabolism is defined as the chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life. Metabolism is linked to foods and burning fat because metabolism is the process by...
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... once consumed, can turn into fuel for the human body? Using the digestive system and its many organs through the process of digestion and metabolism is how our bodies receive the energy it needs to continue on throughout the day and the rest of our lives. Chemistry then kicks in as food starts its process from entering to leaving the body, through the rate of our metabolism, and also by the transfer of energy. The chemistry in the digestive system is a very important process, because without it there would be no human life. Compared to all other systems in the body, the digestive system is one of the most diverse and important. According to Robert Sullivan the digestive system is a set group of organs whose function is based on the process of turning food, absorbing nutrients for energy and getting rid of the bodies waste (Sullivan, 2008, p.33). The organs that are in the digestive system are the following: esophagus, stomach, small intestine, pancreas, liver, gallbladder, colon or large intestine, rectum and anus (Ballard, 2003). Imagine eating a nice dinner with delicious smelling food. Now, imagine eating the food. Have you ever wondered where your food has gone once you consume it? Through your digestive system where the mass of food undergoes a process called digestion. Digestion is the chemical and physical breakdown of food into forms such as energy or nutrients that can be used by the body’s cells...
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...P4- Explain the physiology of two named body systems in relation to energy metabolism in the body In this assignment I will be explain the physiology of two named body system in relation to energy metabolism in the body. The system that I have chosen is the respiratory system and the digestive system. The respiratory system is where the exchange of gases in the body this is where the oxygen enters into the blood. The lung is the main organ which the lungs intakes oxygen into the body and the carbon dioxide is exported out. The respiration system is made up of many organs which help us to breathe properly. The digestive system is where the organs inside the body break down the food and convert it to energy and nutrients that are needed in the body. The stomach is a tube shaped which has all the food and liquid that we have ate and it makes around the body and it is a mainly long twisted tube that starts from the mouth and comes all the way down to the anus and into few organs such as the pancreas and the liver which stores any chemicals accessible. The metabolic rate...
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...What should you eat to lose weight? The answer isn't always straightforward, but your best bet would be foods that burn the most fat and has low calories, and those that burn more calories than what they contain. Adding them to the equation of “Eating Less + Moving More” will definitely help you lose weight. Grapefruit Calorie content per 100g: 42 There are many fruits that are healthy and promote fat loss, but grapefruit is a category all on its own. Its effect on weight loss have been studied directly, which leaves little question of its efficacy as a fat-burning food. In a study conducted and participated by obese individuals, half of the group that were made to eat half a fresh grapefruit 30 minutes before meals over a period of two weeks lost 3.5 pounds or 1.6kg. And they...
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...Eat To Live Introduction + Chapter 1 Introduction: What does the formula H= N/C stand for? Food supplies us with nutrients and __________________ (energy) All calories come form 3 elements: _____________ - ______________ - _________________ Nutrients are vitally important for good health. They are derived from non caloric food factors including: ______________, _______________, _______________ and ______________________ What is the key to permanent weight loss? What does it take to quit addictions? ___________________________ How long does Dr. Fuhrman want you to stick with his plan? _____________________ Chapter 1: What does “empty calories” mean? – What percentage of dieters gain back the weight they lost plus more within 3 years? _______% It is the combination of ___________ _____________, _________________, and _______________ that determines obesity. Health Complications of Obesity: | | | | | | | | | | ...
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...A Disease Controlled by Diet Is alcoholism a disease? There’s much confusion. Pull up a barstool beside any alcoholic drinker and ask whether he thinks he has a disease. He will tell you no, even though he may be quick to admit he’s “an alcoholic.” But ask any recovering alcoholic in A.A. He’ll tell you he has a disease and he’ll tell you he has this disease whether or not he’s drinking. Each of them is partly right. Alcoholic drinking starts a disease process. This process progresses when you’re drinking. It stops when you stop drinking. And when you stop drinking, you can heal much of the damage from the disease if you change your diet. Alcoholism fits the definition of disease. Like other diseases, alcoholism impairs your health by damaging your cells. Like other diseases, it interrupts your body’s vital functions, causing specific symptoms. And like other diseases such as cancer, if it’s allowed to continue long enough, it’ll kill you. But as a disease, it has an ironic twist. The agent causing the disease acts like a medicine that cures the symptoms. Alcoholic drinkers actually feel healthier when they’re drinking. Pain and sickness seem to disappear. Unfortunately, the sense of health is artificial. When you drink, you relieve yourself of the symptoms only. Meanwhile, inside your body, a disease process rages. Drinking wears out your body and actually speeds up the aging process. Your cells live their lives in the fast lane of high blood-sugar and toxic...
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...Sprinting For Weight Loss How To Achieve An Accelerated Metabolism And Lose weight fast in just 10 minutes a day Author Name COPYRIGHT Copyright © 2015 All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal. Disclaimer All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1 Metabolism and how it Works Chapter 2 Nutrition Tips for Pre and Post Workout Chapter 3 Sprinting and Its Effectiveness Chapter 4 Exercise to Accompany Sprints Chapter 5 The Calories Burning Process and the Amount Chapter 6 The Low Intensity Workout Misconception Conclusion Introduction Summer is just around the corner and you are feeling like you have gained some extra pounds through the winter. If you are looking for that bikini body and you want it fast in time to enjoy your summer with friends and family, this eBook is will take you through some problems that most people face when trying to lose weight and then...
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...gratification. Food is needed to provide the nutrients required for the maintenance of normal structure and function of the body. Digestion can never serve its purpose without the body absorbing the nutrients it needs to maintain life. These nutrients however come in various types and forms and that an ideal amount of each should be taken to achieve the body’s optimum functioning. Yes, we may eat whatever is available at any amount we want without undermining the results those foods shall give to our body, but eventually, our physical body will complain in the form of diseases. Although nutrients can work alone, each depends upon the others to be the most effective. The main nutrients are the macronutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins and fats; and the micronutrients: vitamins and minerals. . Macronutrients Macronutrients as its name implies are the molecules that are needed by the body in big amounts. They occupy the biggest portion of the nutrients absorbed by the body from the food that was eaten. 1. Carbohydrates Carbohydrates mean carbon with water. Plants use sunlight in the process of photosynthesis to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and oxygen. When our body needs energy, it looks for carbohydrates first. Carbohydrates come in two forms: simple and complex. Both are composed of units of sugar. The difference is the number of sugar units they contain, and how they link together. Simple Carbohydrates are found in foods such...
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...High fructose corn syrup In the past decades heath related problems have increased drastically. This can be seen in people of all ages. It is not a secret that our food has been changed a lot. Due to the changes of ingredients of our food that we consume every day many people started to have serious health problems related to health. One of the very famous dietary ingredients known to everyone is high fructose corn syrup. First it was made and introduced in United States in late 1950s, but it was not perfected. A decade later Japan have improved and started using it for mass production. HFCS was added to processed foods and soft drinks as a sugar substitute. Advantage of this new food additive was a much easier production and a low price. Right after Japan, USA started using it too; however, no one new its affects on the human body. Since USA started to add HFCS to manufactured food and soft drinks, the rates of obesity, heart diseases and metabolism problems has grown. Since we started to use HFCS in our manufactured food our obesity rates have been increased among the all ages of USA residents. According to Centers for Desease Control and Prevention (CDC), “During the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States and rates remain high. By state, obesity prevalence ranged from 21.0% in Colorado to 34.0% in Mississippi in 2010. No state had...
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...Anthony Cortez KIN 170 5/17/16 Final Nutrition is a very key component in your health and fitness program for many reasons. Nutrition can help you by giving you energy throughout your day as long as you are eating the right food. If you do not eat healthy then you will not be healthy no matter how much you work out. If you continue to eat poor food then you will not see any results at all. No matter how hard it is you have to stick to a daily regiment and know how much calorie intake you should be taking in order for you to have a fit body. Starting your day off with a good breakfast can help your metabolism speed up and it is the best time to go for a run so you can get the metabolism working even faster. It is important to also take supplements such as vitamins because if you are trying to eat healthy and train hard then you will begin to lose some foods that are necessary for your body such as protein. Some people try to cut out protein to lose weight quicker but your body needs protein to strengthen itself and recover and if you aren’t going to do this then this is where vitamins come in and can help your body. Also another good thing to take is fish oil because it helps your metabolism. Nutrition is a very big thing if you are trying to get the desired body you want and since summer is around the corner and you want to get that summer body faster than nutrition is going to be the biggest thing. I believe that nutrition has everything to do with weight loss or gaining...
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...Phillip, “Every day fitness clubs are opening up on every corner and new weight loss books are being published at lightning speed”(92). Even with all this going on around us we are still not losing any weight at all. We are doing this and it is driving our friends, family and ourselves insane. We are causing our minds to explode and bodies with all the diets and pills. So if these things are not working how do we lose the weight and keep it off?, by light exercising, alternative snacking, and by letting your body receive sleep. I have taken the pills, tried the diets, even cabbage soup, and spent an enormous amount of money on programs to help me. Finally one day after stepping on the scales and seeing that after a week of dieting I had not lost one pound, I started thinking about metabolism. I knew metabolism had to do with the rate in which your body uses up or “burns calories”( Stanley). So I learned that if you have a higher metabolism, you burn calories faster than consume them, making you lose weight. Here are just a few simple steps to consider as you battle with your metabolism. Light Exercises I know exercise is most definitely not a word that most dieters wants to even think about. Unfortunately there is no pill that melts away, except the ones that make your heart stop and cause stroke. You do not always feel the burn to make some progress. Going for a walk before or after a pill will help you digest your food better. Also hit the gym with your lady friends...
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...of energy needed by the body, such as: heat, sound, light and chemical. Heat is a thermal energy. Heat is able to be transferred to different places through a material, through a moving liquid or gas, and through radiation. Surfaces which are dark are better at absorbing heat energy heat energy than light serves which are shiny. Sound is the movement of energy through substances in longitudinal waves. Sound is produced when a force causes an object or substance to vibrate this is when the energy is transferred through the substance in a wave. The energy in sound is far less than other forms of energy. Light is a form of energy which our sense of sight can detect. It is made of electro-magnetic radiation and travels in a straight path. The speed of light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second, meaning that nothing travels faster than light. Chemical energy is an energy that is stored in chemicals, such as sugar and gasoline. Chemical energy is the energy in a substance that can be released by a chemical reaction. Laws of energy conservation: The Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, just transformed from one form to another. These forms can include kinetic and potential energy as well as light, heat and sound. Energy can also be transferred between objects. Since energy cannot be created or destroyed, the amount of energy present in the universe is always the same. It is simply being transformed and transferred over and over...
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...Introduction Most vertebrates use aerobic metabolism for their energy needs. Although, some animals use anaerobic metabolism, in which food molecules are oxidized incompletely to lactic acid, lactate (Randall et al., 2002). There are particular times when animals cannot use aerobic metabolism for their energy needs. Such times include when oxygen is low in the environment. Also, when animals exercise, their increase in muscle contraction raises ATP demand resulting in the capacity for oxygen delivery to tissues and the aerobic energy production to be exceeded. When oxygen is very low or unavailable, pyruvate and NADH accumulate and NAD+ will deplete. Pyruvate is converted into lactate by the enzyme lactate dehydrogenase. The conversion of NADH to NAD+ allows for glycolysis to continue. Based on the information obtained from lab, most animals cannot sustain anaerobic glycolysis and intense exercise for a long period of time because there is a limit in carbohydrate fuels and end products accumulate. The goal of this experiment was to use blood lactate concentrations as an indicator of the amount of anaerobic metabolism used. Also, this experiment is conducted to observe the speed of recovery after the use of anaerobic metabolism. Materials and Methods Blood samples were collected from 63 individuals of the species Fundulus grandis. The fish were subject to different levels of rest and exercise. Some had very minimal handling from an aerated tank, while others were exercised...
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...Unit 5- Anatomy and physiology Unit 5.4 P4 M1 D1 P4- Explain the Physiology of Two Named Body Systems in Relation to Energy Metabolism in the Body M1-Discuss the Roles of Energy in the Body In this assignment I will be explaining the physiology of the cardiovascular system and the respiratory system. Whilst explaining the two body systems I will be explaining energy production, process of cellular respiration, the role of enzymes within these body systems, the way that these systems absorb food and the products of digestion. The Cardiovascular System The heart pumps the blood around the body through the blood vessels which is made of mostly veins and capillaries. The blood carries the dissolved oxygen around the bodily cells, whilst carrying the dissolved oxygen the blood removes the waste and the other products from respiration. The body’s blood pressure has to be maintained. The blood distributes heat around the body along with hormones, nutrients, salts, enzymes and urea. The cardiovascular system transports simple molecules and materials to the liver and the body cells via the blood stream. This happens through the hearts pumping actions. The Respiratory System The respiratory system always refreshes oxygen within the lungs, it gets rid of the waste products like carbon dioxide and water, and this is done throughout actions like breathing. The dissolved oxygen passes through the alveolar walls into the bloodstream; this is then transported into the...
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...The low-carb-plateau can be very scary, because not only do you stop losing weight, in some instances you may actually start to put weight back on without even changing your diet at all! (Yikes!) Weight-training will help combat this problem. Weight-training builds muscle and nothing speeds up your metabolism like lean muscle. (And women -- there's no need to shy away from weights anymore. It's now understood that we can't bulk up like men. But more importantly, muscle takes up three times less space than fat! That means a brand new wardrobe, just in time for spring!) Weight-training will ensure that you never hit that awful plateau -- or if you've already hit it, weight-training will be the one thing to help you get to the other side of the plateau so you can start losing again. If that wasn't enough to go do some bicep curls right now, there's even a better reason for low carbers to weight-train. Because you're speeding up your metabolism and using a lot of fuel for your workouts, you actually need to eat a bit more carbs to keep getting...
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