Fast Weight Loss With Increased Metabolism

The main reason to consume food is to gain energy and have enough strength to perform the daily tasks. Therefore the breakdown of the food items into enzymes is very essential. If enough calories are not burnt inside of your body, then this would get collected as extra flesh and result in obesity. To burn the calories the only process that is found responsible is metabolism. If there are ways that one can increase the rate of metabolism, then surely the fats can be cut down on the body. It is not required for someone to keep searching for the different ways to reduce the body weight. Plan a good diet and workout, and everything would just fall in place to gain an attractive personality.

 

There are some processes that are not under the control of the humans, for example, the calories required by the different processes in the human system cannot be decided, these can only be determined. But, how many calories an individual can burn in a day are under control as it can be regulated with a few changes in the daily routine.

 

1. Avoid starvation mode. This is a myth amongst many that to starve and to deprive of oneself from food can help in losing weight. Rather, this can cause harmful effects. Not taking enough amount of food deprives the body from the energy needed and metabolism would crawl as it did not find enough energy to continue.

 

2. Drinking enough water is suggested as one of the best ways to maintain a healthy system. 8 to 12 glasses of water consumption is not much, anyone can manage to take this amount and it has been found that people who maintain this amount of water have a higher metabolism rate.

 

3. Green tea has proven great results too. It promotes fat burning with a compound named ECGC. A study says that an individual can reduce up to 4 to 5 percent of body weight if consumes 3 to 5 cups of green tea for at least 12 weeks.

 

4. Intake calcium, it will help metabolization efficiently. There are certain supplements, which can work as fast weight loss pills. Stop believing that overcutting of calories is anyway going to be beneficial in losing weight, rather healthy meals, consumption of proteins and maintaining a pile on protein along with the necessary workout is all that is required.

 

A body should get everything that is needed to increase the metabolism so that the unnecessary fat can be cut down easily. Remember that no one is convincing you to eat more, but, only to meet the required energy levels for which 6 mini meals are preferable than having 3 huge meals.

 

Alcohol consumption is widely accepted all over, but having an alcoholic beverage before the meal can cause to consume about 200 calories more, thus, it would be better if it is avoided. A healthy diet and a good workout to increase the metabolism help more than any weight loss tablets.

 

Author:  Rohit Bisht


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Direct link between REM sleep loss, desire for sugary and fatty foods discovered

It is not well understood what role sleep loss plays in affecting areas of the brain that control the desire to consume unhealthy foods. A new paper published on December 6 in the journal eLife finds that rapid eye movement (REM) sleep loss leads to increased consumption of unhealthy foods, specifically sucrose and fat. The researchers at the University of Tsukuba's International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (IIIS) used a new method to produce REM sleep loss in mice along with a chemical-genetic technique to block prefrontal cortex neurons and the behaviors they mediate. As a result, the IIIS researchers discovered that inhibiting these neurons reversed the effect of REM sleep loss on sucrose consumption while having no effect on fat consumption.

REM sleep is a unique phase of sleep in mammals that is closely associated with dreaming and characterized by random eye movement and almost complete paralysis of the body. The prefrontal cortex plays a role in judging the palatability of foods through taste, smell and texture. Moreover, persons who are obese tend to have increased activity in the prefrontal cortex when exposed to high calorie foods. "Our results suggest that the medial prefrontal cortex may play a direct role in controlling our desire to consume weight promoting foods, high in sucrose content, when we are lacking sleep," says Kristopher McEown, the lead author on this project.

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Journal Reference:

1. Kristopher McEown Yohko Takata Yoan Cherasse Nanae Nagata Kosuke Aritake Michael Lazarus. Chemogenetic inhibition of the medial prefrontal cortex reverses the effects of REM sleep loss on sucrose consumption. eLife, December 2016 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.20269.001

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