How to Boost Your Metabolism Naturally to Lose Weight?

Your body's rate of metabolism is an essential factor in your quest to lose weight: the faster your metabolic rate, the more calories you burn and the more weight you can lose. Metabolism is the process by which food converts into energy to fuel functions such as breathing, thinking, contracting muscles and circulating blood in the body, writes Donald Hensrud, M.D., a preventive medicine specialist at the Mayo Clinic. There are a number of ways in which you can boost your metabolism naturally to lose weight.

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     Aerobic exercise is one of the most effective ways to boost your metabolism

     Incorporate 30 minutes of aerobic exercise or other physical activity into your daily routine, suggests MayoClinic.com. Note that aerobic exercise is one of the most effective methods to boost your metabolism and lose weight. Exercise helps in adjusting the caloric equation, which is the balance between the number of calories you ingest to the number of calories your body burns. MayoClinic.com suggests 30 minutes of aerobic exercise a day, such as walking, biking and swimming.

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Strength training is an effective way of losing weight.

Incorporate strength training into your exercise regimen by working out with weights or weight lifting. Strength training builds muscle mass in your body, which in turn will boost your metabolism. Muscle tissue burns more calories than fat tissue does, making muscle mass is a key contributing factor in weight loss, reports MayoClinic.com.

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     Adding green tea to your diet can help stimulate the metabolism.

     Drink green tea to boost fat burning metabolism. According to a World's Healthiest Foods report, the caffeine content in green tea promotes the metabolism of visceral fat (abdominal fat), causing the body to expend this fat as energy rather than storing it as fat tissue.
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     Eat smaller meals more regularly throughout the day, advises HelpGuide, a practice that is referred to as grazing. Eat five to six smaller meals a day rather than the regular three large meals. Begin the day with a healthy breakfast, which will help jumpstart your metabolism.
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     Avoid refined grains. Products made from refined grain cause the body to secrete more insulin, says Dr. Joey Schulman. While insulin helps in removing glucose from the bloodstream, it does not remove it from the body but rather stores it as fat tissue. More insulin will therefore result in excess fat in the body, which in turn lowers metabolism.