11/5/09

Eating Better Food To Increase Metabolism

Increase metabolism by eating the right foods and exercising daily. This does not mean you only eat carrots and celery sticks and spend hours in the gym every day. But it does mean that you can make adjustments to the food you eat and increase exercise over a period of time. Making these changes will help reduce your body weight and improve your health and fitness.

You can start by looking at the food you cook in your kitchen. If you like cooking with high calorie foods, then look for low calorie alternative ingredients. For example, rather than adding a high calorie salad dressing to a salad, use a low calorie salad dressing instead. Another popular cooking ingredient is tomato sauce which is also high in calories. There is a low calorie tomato sauce available in food stores and health food shops.

Taking part in a low calorie diet, means you are eating less calories and therefore less calories need to be burned. You can look at your food and see if you can find alternatives that will help reduce your weight.

For example, if you like eating chicken, then remove the skin. Most of the fat in chicken meat is in the skin. You can buy skinless chicken at many butchers and food stores, or remove the skin before you cook chicken.

The same with beef and lamb steaks. Before you cook, remove all the fat and you will have fat free meat. You can also buy lamb and beef with the fat already removed, although the prices are slightly higher, it means less time in your kitchen preparing meat for cooking.

Losing weight and eating the right foods can help to increase metabolism.

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