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Let’s Talk About Metabolism, Calories and Thermogenesis
There are a lot of terms tossed around when you are talking about weight loss and health. Thermogenesis is one of those terms that you should get familiar with if you want to have greater success in keeping a healthy weight and looking your very best. There are a few compelling reasons for this. But first, you’re probably wondering what thermogenesis actually means.
Every day, you eat a certain number of calories, and you also burn a certain number of calories. The number of calories burned is based on your metabolic rate and your activity level. Your resting metabolic rate (also called “basal metabolic rate”) is the amount of energy that you expend if you’re not doing any activity. In other words, if you slept all day and had not eaten for twelve hours, you would simply need enough energy to maintain the functioning of your vital organs and nothing more.
Most people do more than nothing (shocking, isn’t it?), but to truly succeed at weight loss and maintain a healthy weight, you have to understand the way calories and your metabolism are interconnected. Taking your resting metabolic rate and adding the kind of activity you do on a daily basis, you’ll determine the number of calories you need. Then, you exercise enough to burn more calories, forcing your body to tap into your fat stores for the remainder of the energy you require.
Thermogenesis
The Benefits of Green Tea Are Based on Facts
There is always something on the horizon that promises to be the “next big thing” in weight loss and health. New fad diets and exercise programs turn up constantly. Unfortunately, these rarely are as helpful as they try to make you believe, and the last thing you want is to spend your hard-earned money on books or DVDs that falsely claim to be some sort of breakthrough method for losing weight.
There are plenty of products out there that prey on people’s desire to get “instant results” without any effort. Hopefully, you already know that there is no such thing as a miracle cure. With that fact being understood, there is a way to jumpstart your metabolism and experience significant health benefits at the same time: green tea. You may have heard about the benefits of green tea already, or you may be entirely unfamiliar with them.
Weight loss is really all about how much energy you are using versus what you are consuming (best expressed with the popular “calories in versus calories out” expression). When you break it down this way, it sounds deceptively simple, but it really can be a challenge to lose weight. Green tea extract pills induce a higher metabolic rate in you; the official term for this is “thermogenesis.”
Thermogenesis and Antioxidants
Burn That Fat…Another Way to Say Fat Oxidation
In the exercise world, a lot of terms are used by professionals and amateur exercisers. The headlines in the instant weight loss ads scream that you can “burn fat” with little or no effort. The aerobics instructor in the exercise class will try to motivate you by saying “let’s burn those calories by working harder”.
So which is right? Can you burn fat with no effort or does it take a lot of effort or is the truth somewhere in between? The truth is the body gets some of its energy by accessing the energy which has been stored and the storage units include fat cells.
When you consume food, the nutrients include carbohydrates, fats and proteins. Your digestive system breaks down the food into a form that enables the body to store what it needs for survival. There is a complex process involved of course which includes the need for enzymes called lipases. That is why people with digestive problems often add enzyme supplements to their dietary plans.
Though the body will often rely on carbohydrates for energy, the goal of athletes and exercisers is to efficiently use fat stored in the body in addition to the carbs which power the central nervous system. Once the fat has been stored in what are called adipose cells, the body has a method it uses to access the broken down nutrients.