Quotes About Metabolism

Healthy breaks can hit the reset button in your brain, restoring some of the glucose and other metabolic nutrients used up with deep thought. A healthy break is one in which you allow your brain to rest, to loosen its grip on your thoughts.

Splitting your meals up into smaller, more frequent portions will enable food absorption and utilization of nutrients.

I'm naturally thin, so I don't have to work too hard at it. I love food, but I also love to work out. I think it makes everything work better.

I think when you work out a lot, you can afford to eat more because your body's metabolism is higher.

The stress response is incredibly ancient evolutionarily. Fish, birds and reptiles secrete the same stress hormones we do, yet their metabolism doesn't get messed up the way it does in people and other primates.

Overall, I try to have five small meals a day to keep my metabolism up.

I don't overeat. I only eat one meal a day... but my body has been one of those that has almost perfect assimilation, so everything I eat is assimilated, not lost.

Here's the idea: If you generate a lot of lactic acid during your weight-lifting sets, your body will then produce more growth hormone. Growth hormone helps your body release fatty acids from your fat cells, which you then use for energy. Result: You get muscle from lifting weights, and you lose fat.

To generate enough lactic acid to promote fat loss, you have to extend your sets to about a minute, then rest for a minute, then move on to your next set. (Nobody said it was easier than aerobics.)

The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold—your hard-breathing point—during your endurance runs.

Fat as fuel is an all-but-forgotten secret of endurance athletes, but when it's revived, the results are astonishing.

Your muscles needs oxygen to burn calories and convert them into energy, so the better you are at exchanging gases—sucking in oxygen, blowing out carbon dioxide—the longer you can sustain your top speed.

even though our brains account for only 2 percent of our body weight, they demand 20 percent of our energy,

In a fast, the body tears down its defective parts and then builds anew when eating is resumed.

Dondequiera que haya vida, sea en plantas o animales, existen siempre las enzimas. Las enzimas forman parte de todas las actividades necesarias para mantener la vida,

His guilt slowly seeped away. His body metabolized it, like alcohol. And she colluded in his lunacy.

all life forms, no matter how diverse, have common characteristics: 1) they are made up of cells, enclosed by a membrane that maintains internal conditions different from their surroundings, 2) they contain DNA or RNA as the material that carries their master plan, and 3) they carry out a process, called metabolism, which involves the conversion of different forms of energy by means of which they sustain themselves.

If your body produces more blood glucose than the muscle needs, it gets converted into fat. So always choose low-GI carbs like green vegetables and low-GI rice like basmati.

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The concentration of the ferment iron in living substance is very small, being in the region of 1 g to 10 million g of cellular substance.

The nutritive substances used in greatest quantities by mammals are carbohydrates.

With my middle-class metabolism, the suburbs were where I always wanted to be.

Every woman has a different metabolism and different genetics, so rather than compete with one another, concentrate on yourself and be the best you can be.

Metabolism, he reflected, is a burning process, an active furnace. When it ceases to function, life is over. They must be wrong about hell, he said to himself. Hell is cold; everything there is cold. The body means weight and heat; now weight is a force which I am succumbing to, and heat, my heat, is slipping away. And, unless I become reborn, it will never return. This is the destiny of the universe. So at least I won't be alone.