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by Chloe57 on March 18th, 2005

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What is the difference between a fast and a slow metabolism?

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  • by Jillifish on March 20th, 2005

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    Your metabolism is the rate at which your body burns calories to sustain life. Metabolism is relative to your muscle mass, so if you don't have much muscle, your body does not need to burn as many calories to maintain all of the processes (breathing, pumping blood, moving fluids hither and thither) necessary to sustain life. A faster metabolism (ie more muscle mass), will let you eat more calories each day without gaining weight, because all of the calories are used up trying to maintain the body and do not go towards long term storage in fat. Your metabolism is also affected by other things, such as physical activity (increases metabolism), eating smaller meals more frequently (increases metabolism), stress (decreases metabolism), good hydration (increases metabolism), etc.

    For more on the metabolism, please visit:
    http://menshealth.about.com/cs/diet/a/metabolism_faq.htm

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    • Very clear!

      Astaroth

      by Astaroth on March 25th, 2005

    • this is absolutely correct. good explaination.

      Gixxer

      by Gixxer on March 29th, 2005

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