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Boosting your Metabolism
What slows it down?
Your metabolism is not a fixed entity and can slow down as well as speed up. Many people assume that your metabolism slows down as you get older, but this can simply be due to decreasing levels of fitness and muscle mass.
Excess dieting will also have a detrimental effect on your basic metabolic rate. This is because if you dramatically cut down on the amount of food you consume your body will go into 'starvation mode', whereby it protects its fat stores and becomes extremely efficient at using calories from muscle tissue. In turn, this process depletes your muscle mass, therefore lowering your basic metabolic rate making it harder than ever to shift those extra pounds. This explains why crash dieting never works as a long-term solution to weight loss; your metabolism slows down and simply hangs on to all the calories you consume once you start eating normally again.
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