Quotes About Metabolism

The way I think about it is there are some people who are supposed to be skinny, because I have friends of mine who are that thin and who eat more than I do and don't gain a pound, but that's just their frame.

All those spices and herbs in your spice rack can do more than provide calorie-free, natural flavorings to enhance and make food delicious. They're also an incredible source of antioxidants and help rev up your metabolism and improve your health at the same time.

Sleep deprivation has been shown to impair the processing of glucose, which produces immediate consequences for self-control—and, over the long term, a higher risk of diabetes.

Most carnivorous animals do not eat every day—definitely not three times a day! They know the food they eat moves very slowly through their tracts.

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

By the way, the next time you get your cholesterol checked, make a note of the season. Because sunlight converts cholesterol to vitamin D, cholesterol levels can be higher in winter months, when we continue to make and eat cholesterol but there's less sunlight available to convert it.

From aardvarks to zebras, most of our mammalian cousins have working copies of the genes that can manufacture vitamin C naturally within their bodies. But humans (along with guinea pigs, of all things) have a genetic inborn error in metabolism, a mutation that renders us incapable of doing the same thing. This makes us completely dependent upon our diets to get our daily supply of vitamin C.

running an entire marathon burns only about 2,600 calories, the equivalent of a day's worth of food. Even worse, body fat is a remarkably good way to store energy: a pound of body fat contains roughly 4,000 calories. That means losing a mere ten pounds is the caloric equivalent of running 13.5 marathons.

Shifting to a low-sugar, lower carbohydrate diet is particularly important for people looking to lose weight or repair their metabolism, and it seems prudent for everyone.

Excessive consumption of fructose contributes to the development of fatty liver disease, kidney stones, and gout.

Far more calories are used to heat the body than to move it.

thyroid hormone increases the rates of most chemical reactions in all cells, thus helping to set the tempo of bodily activity.

Insulin controls glucose metabolism;

adrenocortical hormones control sodium and potassium ions and protein metabolism;

The more you exercise, the more tissues you can feed and the more toxic waste you can remove.

WHY is ocean acidification so dangerous? The question is tough to answer only because the list of reasons is so long. Depending on how tightly organisms are able to regulate their internal chemistry, acidification may affect such basic processes as metabolism, enzyme activity, and protein function. Because it will

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.

Brain cells come and brain cells go, but fat cells live forever.

Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.

Resting metabolic rate is largely genetically determined, but our calorie intake has an effect as well.

I have a pretty high metabolism rate. So I tend to lose muscle mass if I am not working out.

I make sure I eat something healthy every two hours. It keeps my metabolic rate high.

I ate everything and I never exercised or even went for a walk. I guess I had a great metabolic rate.

Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.