Understanding Metabolism and Weight

by Emma Deangela

Metabolism is the body's rate in burning calories and fats to release energy in order to function. The metabolic activity of a person is not the same with another. The metabolic rate also increase and decrease as a person goes on with his or her daily activity. In rigorous activities like jogging and exercising, the metabolism of the body speeds up but with resting, sleeping and sitting, the metabolism slows down thus fewer calories and fats are burned.

There has been a notion that a person who has a high metabolism is slimmer and thinner than other individuals whereas when the metabolism is low, they have larger size body composition and feature, and this notion has been popular to everyone. To further put light into this notion, it is a fact that weight is dependent to the balance of converting calories into energy which the body uses up in order to normally function. When there is too much calories taken inside the body than actually burned the results are there is gain in weight but when there is little of calories taken than that is burned then loss in weight is apparent. Overweight is related to the eating practices a person has along with the daily performance and activities that they do, and the increase or decrease in weight is also connected to the burning of calories.

Overweight is the cause for having energy imbalance, as previously discussed inducing more of calories than really actually burning it up. So in order to lose some weight you may have to lessen the amount of calories you take in and increase the calories that you burn by doing some activities that will require you to lose calories increasingly like physical exercises thus creating an energy deficit.

Required calorie of a person is different from another and there are some factors that affect the required calories which must be carefully considered. These factors include gender, age, body composition and body mass.

Usually people of largely sized body composition needs more calories to be burned in order to normally function compared to small sized bodies. And it is also been a fact that muscles needs more calorie burned than fat does, and more body muscles would mean high basal metabolic rate.

Age has some influence to the body's metabolism. When one goes to the stage of old age the rates by which energies are burned are decreased thus fats are accumulated leaving the body overweight. And calorie needs reduces as well in this stage.

Males have less fat than females have because their body is naturally composed of more muscles than females do. And this is why the rate at which males' burn calories is faster than females.

In conclusion, your metabolism directly affects your energy requirements but the foods that one takes in as well as the amount and the activities that one performs greatly affects your weight and body features. Gaining weight cannot be just caused by how much food you consume but through the activities that you also do as well. And to lose that weight cannot be performed in a day's time; it takes a lot of time and effort as well as discipline.

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