How to Boost Your Metabolism
"You gotta eat 6 small meals throughout the day to stoke your metabolism" No, you don't. "Your metabolism starts to slows down if you haven't eaten in 3 hours" No, it doesn't. "You have to eat breakfast to kickstart your metabolism" Again, no. In the late eighties a study called 'nibbling versus gorging' was published. Using just 7 men as the basis for their study, researchers found some modest health benefits to having 17 snacks throughout the day, as opposed to a more traditional three meals a day. And thus the idea that you have to eat often to boost your metabolism was born. It's nice and gimmicky, so of course the diet and weight-loss 'gurus' latched onto and popularised the idea so they could sell more of their tat. Well, I guess they did a pretty good job, because this myth is still around today... ...despite their being numerous studies that have conclusively shown that eating smaller, more frequent meals does NOT lead to greater weight loss. One study in 1997 concluded "with the exception of a single study, there is no evidence that weight loss on hypoenergetic regimens is altered by meal frequency". Another study in 2009, found "there were no significant differences between the low and high meal frequency groups for adiposity indices, appetite measurements or gut peptides either before or after the intervention. We conclude that increasing meal frequency does not promote greater body weight loss". As it turns out, there's only one real way to boost your metabolism: Exercise. Specifically, the type of workouts we prescribe in Lamp Fitness International. This particular training method is scientifically-proven to boost your metabolism for up to 2 days after each workout. Not only that, but the workouts build muscle, which as we discussed previously elevates your resting metabolic rate. When all is said and done, this is by far the most effective way of boosting your metabolism, and therefore calorie burn. No other method even comes close.
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