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Metabolism, Health, and Beauty
Metabolism is the process of transforming food into fuel . The body uses this energy to conduct a vast array of essential functions to maintain your health and fitness.
In fact, your ability to read this page – literally – is driven by your metabolism.
If you had no metabolism – that is, if you had no metabolic process that was converting food into energy – then you wouldn’t be able to move.
In fact, long before you realized that you couldn’t move a finger or lift your foot, your internal processes would have stopped; because the basic building blocks of life necessary to maintaining health and fitness – circulating blood, transforming oxygen into carbon dioxide, expelling potentially lethal wastes through the kidneys and so on – all of these depend on metabolism.
Keep this in mind the next time you hear someone say that they have a slow metabolism.
While they may struggle with health, fitness and unwanted weight gain due to metabolic factors, they certainly have a functioning metabolism.
If they didn’t, they wouldn’t even be able to speak (because that, too, requires energy that comes from, you guessed it: metabolism!).
I’ll continue with this subject later, since a proper understanding of the metabolism is essential to maintain health, fitness - and beauty!