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to eating large amounts of fiber ( 3 - 40 g/day ) then I would advise working your way up. Start by assessing your current fiber intake and work your way up slowly week by week. Trust my you'll thank me later!

Water: Water seems to pop up in just about every topic relating to fitness and nutrition. You will from time to time see it in articles on fat loss and weight management. Usually the reasoning is a bit off. You will often see people talk about how if flushes loose body fat from the system or removes fat from the bloodstream so it can't be deposited, removing toxins or something along those lines. Which all may very have some truth behind it, but that has nothing to do with actually losing body fat. No, water's fat loss potential comes from it's temperature. You see, a heavy portion of the estimated 1800 - 2000 calories humans expend on just living every day is a result of what is called thermoregulation. Your body's ability to maintain an internal temperature of a toasty 98.6 degrees.

When you drink an ice cold glass of water, it will lower your body's core temperature. Research has determined that a single 16oz bottle of water will increase your metabolic rate by about 30% within 10 minutes of drinking it. This effect tops out after about 40 minutes. Is that significant? You bet your bottled water it is! Drinking the recommended eight 8oz glasses of water would increase your resting energy expenditure by about 200 calories. And that my friends is how water aides in fat loss. In a not so logical way, water stokes the metabolic fires.

Calcium: You have probably seen the milk and yogurt ads recently about the benefits dairy products have on fat loss. A few recent research studies have reported that when obese people were put on isocaloric ( the same amount of calories ) diets, but some were given milk to fill some of those calories, they lost weight much faster than those with out milk. Researchers are saying that calcium has a direct effect on your metabolism. Meaning that the amount of calcium in your diet will play a big role in just how easy or difficult it is for you to gain / lose weight. The catch 22 here is that just adding some calcium supplements to the mix doesn't seem to have the same effect. It appears that the calcium is best when obtained from dairy sources.

This fact alone has cause some suspicion to arise, and rightfully so. Many think it has been a ploy by the dairy industry to increase revenue. Health officials have demanded many companies to stop running their weight loss ads. However, there are many supplements based on research using whole foods that have never panned out due to the fact that whole foods have many nutrients that we just aren't aware of yet which may play a role in a lot of their health benefits. There could be something to the whole dairy food thing. There hasn't been a lot of research on the topic, but what research that is available is compelling. So for that reason I recommend to try to get a few servings of low fat dairy in to the mix. A cup of yogurt, a glass of milk and a 1/2 cup of cottage cheese on the day and you are set!

And there you have it folks. 6 sure fire ways to increase your metabolism today!

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