Quotes About Metabolism

Extended periods of lungfish-like dormancy8 (the "undead" state) developed in response, as a means of reducing vampires' energetic needs. Vampires

The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.

Carbohydrate is the bad guy. You have to see that.

Eating three times a day means taking on, almost without respite, the work of assimilation.

For most of us, no matter how slim, middle-aged spread really does set in, and your waist thickens, irrespective of whether you've had children or if you exercise regularly.

McDonalds used to be my favorite place to eat, until my metabolism changed in my late 30s. Before that, I would have no hesitation about walking into McDonalds and getting two cheeseburgers and fries and enjoying every last bite.

The body is dynamic. You can eat something and get bloated in minutes.

In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide.

Production and consumption of carbohydrates is so well regulated that there is a constant blood sugar level; any accidental increase or fall in blood sugar is rapidly compensated.

Biological energy comes from the sun. Light energy harvested by photosynthesis in chloroplasts and phototropic bacteria becomes stored in carbohydrates and fats. This stored energy can be released by oxidative metabolism in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and used as fuel for other biological processes.

I kick off my metabolism with a glass of O.J. and a pretty big smoothie. I put in chia seeds, flax seeds, raw organic honey, fresh spinach, hemp seeds, avocado, matcha, spirulina, raw almond butter, almond milk, berries, sunflower seeds, and pumpkin seeds.

La pectina aislada de la tuna del nopal (Opuntia sp.) modifica el metabolismo de la lipoproteína de baja densidad en conejillos de la India alimentados con colesterol]. The Journal of Nutrition [Revista de la nutrición], vol. 120 (1990).

Cancer as a Metabolic Disease, puts

Certain B-vitamins

The nervous system consumes more glucose than most other parts of the body

effortful mental activity appears to be especially expensive in the currency of glucose.

But my father had already removed his hand from his pocket, and everyone could see the scrap of newspaper into which he proceeded to blow his nose. Any kind of excitement provoked powerful disturbances in his metabolism and ample secretions of fluids. If he got out of that scramble alive, the first thing he would do would be to go behind a bush and urinate, breaking wind vigorously, I was sure of that.

Approximately 50 percent of Americans have some form of insulin resistance, according to Dr. Robert Lustig, professor of pediatric endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco.5 That percentage is even higher in adults older than forty-five. "In contrast to popular false beliefs, weight loss and health should not be a constant battle uphill through calorie restriction, which simply doesn't work," says Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt

Good grief," Sarah said to him, "how are you not diabetic?" "It's because I burn the calories up so fast," Moose answered. "My body never has time to realize I've eaten anything.

the fact that magnesium deficiency increases the production of free radicals and decreases

Your body will not burn fat while your insulin level is high. It's focused on using glucose. But once all of the glucose and glycogen is used, the insulin level falls

The Nutri-Matic Drinks Synthesizer claimed to produce the widest possible range of drinks personally matched to the tastes and metabolism of whoever cared to use it. When put to test, however, it invariably produced a plastic cup filled with a liquid which was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject's brain to see what was likely to go down well.

He took a deep breath. He didn't need to do this since his body was supplied with the peculiar assortment of gases it required for survival from a small intravenous device strapped to his leg. There are times, however, when whatever your metabolism you have to take a deep breath.