| In the never ending battle to loose weight people | | | | foods that are high in complex carbohydrates and |
| have tried all sorts of calorie cutting diets, energy | | | | proteins. Why? Because complex carbohydrates |
| boosting pills and the latest "Fat Buster" exercise | | | | and proteins require more energy for the body to |
| machine seen on late night TV. During this quest | | | | break down and use. This results in extra calories |
| to burn off the fat they come to realize that | | | | being burned just for the sake of digestion and |
| maybe what they are doing is not working as well | | | | cellular metabolism. |
| as advertised. The reality is that if we give our | | | | Foods that are high in complex carbohydrates also |
| bodies the nutrition that they need by eating | | | | help to increase our metabolism in another way. |
| healthy nutrient dense foods we've already won | | | | Because complex carbohydrates take longer to |
| half the battle. | | | | break down by the bodies digestive system the |
| What happens when we eat healthy nutritious | | | | release of the caloric energy is spread out over a |
| food? Our bodies respond by increasing our | | | | longer period of time. This results in less insulin |
| metabolism, which in turn burns away extra fat. | | | | being released into the blood stream and a more |
| Now while this is rather simplified and loosing | | | | balanced energy flow during our waking hours |
| weight can require a little more effort as far as | | | | resulting in less snacking on sugary sweets. |
| exercising and eating right in a nut-shell this is the | | | | Sugars and fats on the other hand tend to cause |
| first best step to loosing excess weight. | | | | energy spikes followed by a low period during |
| One of the first things we must understand is | | | | which we are tempted to eat more of these fat |
| how our body uses and stores energy. Our bodies | | | | producing foods to re-energize ourselves. |
| get their energy from the foods we eat but that | | | | Most of the complex carbohydrates we eat |
| energy comes in many different forms. We can | | | | come from fruits and vegetables. Fruits and |
| get it from protein, carbohydrates and fat and | | | | vegetables can help increase our metabolism in |
| there are different forms of these as well. It's | | | | one other way. They are high in fiber and our |
| how our bodies use these various forms of | | | | bodies' burn more calories digesting fiber then just |
| energy that affect our metabolism. | | | | about anything else. In fact it is theorized that |
| In the case of fat our bodies have very little | | | | many fruits and vegetables fall into the "negative |
| trouble converting them directly into fat stores | | | | calorie" categories of foods. A negative calorie |
| for future use. Because fats tend to get sent | | | | food is one that actually takes more calories to |
| directly to fat storage the body uses very little | | | | digest then it actually contains. The resulting |
| energy, or calories, accomplishing this. This is also | | | | increase in metabolism from eating negative |
| true of simple carbohydrates, usually in the form | | | | calorie foods can help burn away excess body fat |
| of refined sugars, found throughout most of our | | | | stores and result in a gradual weight loss. When |
| diets. The body not only uses very little energy | | | | combined with a moderate exercise program the |
| converting these refined sugars into fat the huge | | | | weight loss and metabolism increase can be even |
| amounts of sugar the average person eats | | | | greater. |
| causes the body to release larger amounts of | | | | As you can see the foods that increase |
| insulin to deal with this sugar overload. These | | | | metabolism are healthy, nutrient dense foods. |
| higher insulin levels stimulate our appetites to eat | | | | Steering clear of processed foods and refined |
| more and increase the rate at which we store | | | | sugars is key to not only increasing metabolism |
| excess calories as fat tissue. | | | | but also living a healthy fat free life. |
| Foods that increase metabolism include those | | | | |