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Vocabulary
What is the difference between
Digestion
Absorption
Metabolism
Aids to Digestion
1: KEEP PACE!
If you take your time, your body has time to produce saliva and enzymes.
Your body has a chance to register it’s full.
Decrease the amount of air you swallow.
Aids to Digestion
2: FEED YOUR BACTERIA
Bacteria in your gut actually aid digestion
Feed it with probiotics and fibre.
Aids to Digestion
STOP AND LISTEN
Some foods we naturally digest worse than others
Why eat them then?
Aids to Digestion
4: WET YOUR APPETITE
Water between meals can reduce inflammation in your stomach.
Makes you feel full.
Flushes out toxins.
Aids to Digestion
5: MIX IT UP
New research talks about ‘food combining’
Avoid combining starch with protein
Eat fruits on their own.
Eat only one type of protein.
Aids to Digestion
6. PINCH OF SALT
Salt actually helps break down the food you eat.
Aids to Digestion
7: CHEW!
First part of digestion is reducing surface area.
The act of chewing is actually a signal to secrete enzymes.
Aids to Digestion
8: AVOID COLD DRINKS
Cold drinks slow down digestion.
Food is digested more efficiently when it’s at body temperature.
Aids to Digestion
9. LEMON JUICE
Can cleanse any debris in stomach.
Can get rid of excess acids.
Metabolism
Tips to Increasing Your Metabolism
1) Understand what your metabolism is
put simply, it’s the rate at which your body burns calories
Metabolism
2) Determine what influences your metabolism
Age- Your metabolism decreases by 5% every decade you age
Gender- Men burn calories quicker than women
Heredity- Can inherit your MR
Weight-
Metabolism
3) Estimating your resting metabolic rate (RMR)
RMR = 9.99w + 6.25s - 4.92a + 166g -161
OR use a calculator
Metabolism
5) Eat small frequent meals
Tend to eat less by eating small frequent meals rather than gorging
Metabolism
6) Drink ice cold water
Your body spends calories warming your body, and will therefore boost your metabolism
Metabolism
7) Boost your metabolism temporarily with exercise
Raise your heart rate and maintain for 30 minutes
Metabolism
8) Boost metabolism in the long run be weight training
Muscle uses more calories than fat, so boosting muscle mass will boost the number of calories your body uses
ONLY was to increase RMR which represents 60-70% of the calories you use in a day