A healthy diet and regular exercise are common recommendations to help support an optimal metabolism, but there are plenty of other simple ways to enhance metabolism. 1. Stand up and move—every 20 minutes. Are you sitting yourself to death? Standing up and moving for a few minutes every 20 minutes can have a positive effect [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2013
A fancy word for change: Metabolism
Many people think metabolism is a simple equation of food intake minus calories burned. Derived from the Greek word, “metabol,” meaning “to change,” metabolism is actually a blanket term describing thousands of physical and chemical processes in the body that change one thing into another to build and repair cells, fight infection, maintain body temperature [...]
