This is Part 2 of Body Metabolism

How to increase Metabolism:

1) Build up on lean, mean body mass. How?
=> Match the amount of eating to the amount of activity one has.
Here are some guidelines in getting the right exercise:

For strength training
- Increase the amount of repetitions of a particular exercise.
- Add the level of resistance
- Utilize advance exercise techniques if possible
For cardiovascular training
- Insert intervals between exercises
- Perform cross-training and combine the exercises
- Add up on resistance and speed

2) Eat breakfast.
A lot of people are ignoring the fact that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Surprisingly, the ones who eat breakfast are thinner than the ones who do not. Metabolism can slow down considerably if breakfast is taken during mid-morning or if one waits until the afternoon to eat.

3) Avoid sugar.
Sugar enables the body to store fat. It is recommended that a person consumes food that helps sustain a even level of blood-sugar. Additionally, progressive exercise 2 to 3 times a week should be in order to stabilize blood sugar.

4) Eat spicy foods.
Hot cuisine with peppers can increase metabolism.

5) Sleep more.
According to research, it is riskier for people who do not get enough sleep to gain weight. Also, muscles are regenerated during the last couple of hours of slumber.

6) Increase water intake.
Water flushes out toxins that are produced whenever the body burns fat. Majority of bodily functions involves water, and lack of water causes the body system’s operations to decrease its speed, and produces unneeded stress as a result.

7) Eat smaller meals.
It is advisable to consume 4 to 6 small meals that are timed 2 to 3 hours apart.

Never skip meals.
People tend to skip meals in order to lose weight, which is a big mistake since it slows down metabolism.

9) Plan meals in detail.
Always prepare the right amount of food to be consumed at the designated intervals. Do not commit the mistake of eating meals in sporadic patterns.

10) Ditch the stress!
Stress, be it physical or emotional, triggers the release of a steroid called cortisol, which decreases metabolism. Also, people tend to eat excessively when stressed.

11) Guzzle up on green tea.
It can be used as a substitute for coffee. Tea has the ability to stimulate metabolism, and unlike coffee, it has no undesirable side effects when too much is consumed.

12) Include more energy foods in the diet, such as fruits and vegetables, beans and whole grains.

Thought:
Achieving the desired body weight is never impossible if one has the determination and patience needed to stabilize the metabolism level, which plays an important role in weight loss. A person needs to realize that eating right and working out is not just a passing fancy, but a way of life.

Recommended Articles:
a) Pregnancy and Exercise
b) Why you should get a banana asap!

Metabolism Defintion:
=> The rate by which your body produces and consumes energy & calories to support life.

Why Boost Metabolism:
=> A high level of metabolism enables one to burn fat and lose weight fast with the least amount of activity.

Some Factors affecting Metabolism:
1) Amount of muscle tissue,
2) Frequency of the meals one consumes,
3) Genetics,
4) Stress levels,
5) Personal diet
6) Activity levels.

Possible reasons why Metabolism can slow down:
1) Loss of muscle due to lack of physical activity,
2) Tendency of the body to cannibalize its own tissue either due to insufficient food energy to sustain it or the decrease of physical activity that comes naturally with old age.

Now that we have a clear picture of metabolism, let us see together how we can increase it by implementing simple tips.
So, without any delay shift to the next part of this article, named as : How to increase Metabolism.

Prescribing a medication for pregnant women is a complex process.

Before obstetricians and gynecologists decide which dose of which drug can best treat a condition without putting any harmful side effects on the mother and the baby, they consider the patients age, general health, the number of months before delivery, tolerance for medications, and any other drugs the pregnant patient may be taking.

Prescribing exercise on pregnant women has to be just as scientific and precise. The type, intensity, frequency, and duration of a dose of exercise are all critical. One persons healthy, vigorous workout could be hazardous to another. These dangers may be greater in pregnant women because they are more likely to have strains and other serious side effects for the would-be mother.

However, if exercise will be implemented and carried out in a normal, average range, exercise will not have an effect on the overall condition of the pregnancy and especially on labor or delivery.

- Pregnancy -

Quality prenatal care should be given to a mother during her pregnancy. She should be prepared for the normal delivery of a healthy baby. Complications should be prevented at all costs.

All of these things are boiled down to the fact that a pregnant woman should be cared in such a way that she will not be compelled to do vigorous work but should not also stay in bed and be inactive until she gives birth to her baby.

Consequently, a pregnant womans condition varies in relation to the growth and development of the baby in side her womb. Therefore, it is necessary that proper health guidance be provided by her physician during her visit.

Moreover, it is important to keep the pregnant womans life active in order to promote good health, not only for her but also for the baby most importantly.

Physical conditions like blood pressure, weight and health status is usually monitored during the pregnant woman’s visit to her doctor. For this reason, it is significant to note that exercise can be the number one factor in order to keep these aspects in good condition.

As the health experts contend, adequate physical and emotional information is needed by a pregnant woman to prepare herself for delivery. She needs practical health messages in keeping herself and the baby healthy.

Hence, for mothers or would-be mothers who are not yet aware why they should exert some effort in engaging into moderate, normal exercise, here is a list of some of its benefits so that you will be able to understand the reasons why pregnant women have to exercise regularly:

1. Defiance against fatigue

As muscle becomes fatigued, it produces less force. To accomplish a task like climbing the stairs, for example, or shoveling snow, more units of muscle must be called into play to back up the wearied muscles.

The tired muscles are both less efficient and less effective. Hence, this will just put more strain on the pregnant woman because of the weight that is continuously adding up each day. That is why tired muscles will usually result to leg cramps or sore muscles.

What every pregnant woman must know is that exercise improves the condition of the muscles and their ability to work longer without fatigue.

2. Reduce backaches

Even when you sit or stand, some muscles are working, and such relatively easy postures can tax some muscles and cause fatigue. The muscles of the lower back, for example, can be exhausted and worn out by the effort of keeping erect when a pregnant woman stand still for several hours.

With exercise, a pregnant woman can correct this error by developing her posture.

3. Increase the amount of oxygen

Work and exercise rely on glycogen, a substance produced by the body from complex carbohydrates and stored muscles and liver. The supply of glycogen in the muscles determines and limits the duration of activity. Exercise depletes the glycogen in the muscles and leads to tiredness.

However, when glycogen is depleted by strenuous activity, it is replaced in quantities greater than before, as if the body recognized the need to lay in a larger supply of fuel.

Hence, oxidation is essential for converting glycogen to the energy that pregnant women need to wiggle a finger, flex a muscle, or practice the lungs and heart for some blowing action during normal delivery.

These are just some of the many benefits exercise can bring to pregnant women. Besides, nothing is completely wrong for a pregnant woman doing some moderate exercises. The only important thing to remember is that before starting an exercise program, whether pregnant or not, it is best to consult your doctor. As they say, doctors know best!

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10 reasons why you should eat a banana often/daily

1) Has a variety of medical properties
2) Contains valuable vitamins A, B, C & D for your health
3) Is very healthy for athletes or anyone doing sports exercises; banana provides stability and vigour to muscular, veinous and nerveous systems
4) Strongly recommended for people having problems like blood pressures and hypertension
5) Amazingly reduces your weight (heheh, you did not know this one? ) Yeah, people has a misconception that banana makes them prone to overweight, but NO it’s not!
6) Banana contains a ferrous substance which pushes up vitamin content and hence gives a healing effect to anaemic patients
7) Highly recommended for pregnant women
Very good for people having constipation disorders; especially when mixed with guavas - an excellent mixture in cleaning bowels. So no more stress in the morning
9) Banana also contains potassium which assist learning by making pupils more alert and is thus a must to be included in the morning diet/breakfast of students
10) The interior banana skin reduces swelling and irritation in cases of mosquito bites, wasps..etc (This is also my personal real life experience when I suffered 2 wasps bites. I rubbed the inner skin of a banana several times on the infected bites and I was amazed to see that they were not swollen/irritated)

Some facts about banana:
1) You must have heard that “an apple a day, saves a life”.. But research has shown that a banana is richer in resources than an apple; making it one of the best valuable food around!
2) The true origin of bananas is in the region of Malaysia
3) Banana plants can grow up to 15m
4) Currently there are 5 different types of bananas available on the market, namely Red bananas, Fruit-bananas, Apple-bananas, baby-banana (pisang susa) and Baking bananas
5) In 327 BCE, Alexander the Great relished his first taste of the banana, an usual fruit he saw growing on tall trees (in India)
6) A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy
7) Beer is also brewed from bananas in Eastern Africa
Bananas contain all the 8 amino-acids that our body cannot produce itself
9) When kept together with apples, wrapped in a paper, inside a refrigerator, a banana ripens more faster.

Banana Fun Time

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The respiration of a pure air is at all times, and under all circumstances, indispensable to the health of the infant. The nursery therefore should be large, well ventilated, in an elevated part of the house, and so situated as to admit a free supply both of air and light. For the same reasons, the room in which the infant sleeps should be large, and the air frequently renewed; for nothing is so prejudicial to its health as sleeping in an impure and heated atmosphere. The practice, therefore, of drawing thick curtains closely round the bed is highly pernicious; they only answer a useful purpose when they defend the infant from any draught of cold air.

The proper time for taking the infant into the open air must, of course, be determined by the season of the year, and the state of the weather.

“A delicate infant born late in the autumn will not generally derive advantage from being carried into the open air, in this climate, till the succeeding spring; and if the rooms in which he is kept are large, often changed, and well ventilated, he will not suffer from the confinement, while he will, most probably, escape catarrhal affections, which are so often the consequence of the injudicious exposure of infants to a cold and humid atmosphere.”

If, however, the child is strong and healthy, no opportunity should be lost of taking it into the open air at stated periods, experience daily proving that it has the most invigorating and vivifying influence upon the system. Regard, however, must always be had to the state of the weather; and to a damp condition of the atmosphere the infant should never be exposed, as it is one of the most powerful exciting causes of consumptive disease. The nurse-maid, too, should not be allowed to loiter and linger about, thus exposing the infant unnecessarily, and for an undue length of time; this is generally the source of all the evils which accrue from taking the babe into the open air.

Recommended reading:

1) Pregnancy and Exercise

2) Why you should get a banana asap!

3) How to increase Metabolism?