Becky Ann - the term for the way cells chemically change food so that it can be used to store or use energy and make the proteins, fats, and sugars needed by the body,
basically people with fast metabolism burns up the food and changes it into energy faster, people with slow metabolism has trouble doing that fast enough so that the fats store up into your body and you gain weight more i guess
Ingram - Both of them are wrong, metabolism is the rate your heart pumps blood or something like that, all I'm for sure on is that if your metabolism is high you can eat a lot and not gain weight where if its low you gain weight
ClickMaster - Here's what dictionary.com has to say: "the sum of the processes in the buildup and destruction of protoplasm; specifically : the chemical changes in living cells by which energy is provided for vital processes and activities and new material is assimilated". Now that you know, forget it. It will have no useful meaning or practical value to your life unless you get into biochem or a similar science.
One of the most common myths or misunderstandings in diet, nutrition, and fitness is that metabolic rate is responsible for a person's natural tendency toward being fat or thin or muscular. Or that metabolic rate can be changed to help lose fat or gain weight. This is not true and easy evidence of that fact can be found here ---> http://www.calculator.net/bmr-calculator.html where basal metabolic rate (BMR) can be calculated with only height, weight, sex, and age. If metabolism was responsible for gaining fat or staying thin, that natural tendency would have to be included in the calculation of BMR, but it's not. In other words, a naturally fat person and a naturally skinny person of the same height, weight, sex, and age will have the same metabolic rate. There will be no difference in their metabolism which means metabolism is not really a factor in natural tendencies toward being heavy or thin.
It's important to understand this fact because it will put an end to the frustration that comes with trying to change the metabolic rate to create a specific effect such the loss or gain of body weight, fat, or muscle. Unless you have a real medical issue, your metabolism is fine and nothing you do is going to create more than a normal temporary change in metabolic rate.
If it's important to you to blame something for being an ectomorph or an endomorph, then blame your parents because those propensities are inherited...genetic. Or blame your soma (body) type (ecto, endo, or mesomorph). But don't blame your metabolism because it is nothing more than the totality of the energy exchanges which happen every second of every day as required to sustain your life given the demands of the moment.
Most people would be well advised to not even use the word metabolism as it has no real relevance to the problems of being an easy or hard gainer. It makes no more sense to think about your metabolism in regard to diet or exercise than it does to think about your car's horsepower when pressing on the gas pedal to go or the brake pedal to stop. If you're concerned with losing fat, gaining weight, building muscle, or maintaining, follow good diet, exercise, and fitness strategies and your metabolism will take care of itself.
For more about metabolism, go here ---> http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/metabolism/WT00006
jb92_ - Metabolism is how fast you digest food.
ReplyDeleteFrank Castle - the rate at which your body burns fat i believe but i could be wrong
ReplyDeleteBecky Ann - the term for the way cells chemically change food so that it can be used to store or use energy and make the proteins, fats, and sugars needed by the body,
ReplyDeletebasically people with fast metabolism burns up the food and changes it into energy faster, people with slow metabolism has trouble doing that fast enough so that the fats store up into your body and you gain weight more i guess
Ingram - Both of them are wrong, metabolism is the rate your heart pumps blood or something like that, all I'm for sure on is that if your metabolism is high you can eat a lot and not gain weight where if its low you gain weight
ReplyDeleteClickMaster - Here's what dictionary.com has to say: "the sum of the processes in the buildup and destruction of protoplasm; specifically : the chemical changes in living cells by which energy is provided for vital processes and activities and new material is assimilated". Now that you know, forget it. It will have no useful meaning or practical value to your life unless you get into biochem or a similar science.
ReplyDeleteOne of the most common myths or misunderstandings in diet, nutrition, and fitness is that metabolic rate is responsible for a person's natural tendency toward being fat or thin or muscular. Or that metabolic rate can be changed to help lose fat or gain weight. This is not true and easy evidence of that fact can be found here ---> http://www.calculator.net/bmr-calculator.html where basal metabolic rate (BMR) can be calculated with only height, weight, sex, and age. If metabolism was responsible for gaining fat or staying thin, that natural tendency would have to be included in the calculation of BMR, but it's not. In other words, a naturally fat person and a naturally skinny person of the same height, weight, sex, and age will have the same metabolic rate. There will be no difference in their metabolism which means metabolism is not really a factor in natural tendencies toward being heavy or thin.
It's important to understand this fact because it will put an end to the frustration that comes with trying to change the metabolic rate to create a specific effect such the loss or gain of body weight, fat, or muscle. Unless you have a real medical issue, your metabolism is fine and nothing you do is going to create more than a normal temporary change in metabolic rate.
If it's important to you to blame something for being an ectomorph or an endomorph, then blame your parents because those propensities are inherited...genetic. Or blame your soma (body) type (ecto, endo, or mesomorph). But don't blame your metabolism because it is nothing more than the totality of the energy exchanges which happen every second of every day as required to sustain your life given the demands of the moment.
Most people would be well advised to not even use the word metabolism as it has no real relevance to the problems of being an easy or hard gainer. It makes no more sense to think about your metabolism in regard to diet or exercise than it does to think about your car's horsepower when pressing on the gas pedal to go or the brake pedal to stop. If you're concerned with losing fat, gaining weight, building muscle, or maintaining, follow good diet, exercise, and fitness strategies and your metabolism will take care of itself.
For more about metabolism, go here ---> http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/metabolism/WT00006
Good luck and good health!
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