Vocabulary

What is the difference between

Digestion

Absorption

Metabolism

Aids to Digestion

1: KEEP PACE!

If you take your time, your body has time to produce saliva and enzymes.

Your body has a chance to register it’s full.

Decrease the amount of air you swallow.

Aids to Digestion

2: FEED YOUR BACTERIA

Bacteria in your gut actually aid digestion

Feed it with probiotics and fibre.

Aids to Digestion

STOP AND LISTEN

Some foods we naturally digest worse than others

Why eat them then?

Aids to Digestion

4: WET YOUR APPETITE

Water between meals can reduce inflammation in your stomach.

Makes you feel full.

Flushes out toxins.

Aids to Digestion

5: MIX IT UP

New research talks about ‘food combining’

Avoid combining starch with protein

Eat fruits on their own.

Eat only one type of protein.

Aids to Digestion

6. PINCH OF SALT

Salt actually helps break down the food you eat.

Aids to Digestion

7: CHEW!

First part of digestion is reducing surface area.

The act of chewing is actually a signal to secrete enzymes.

Aids to Digestion

8: AVOID COLD DRINKS

Cold drinks slow down digestion.

Food is digested more efficiently when it’s at body temperature.

Aids to Digestion

9. LEMON JUICE

Can cleanse any debris in stomach.

Can get rid of excess acids.

Metabolism

Tips to Increasing Your Metabolism

1) Understand what your metabolism is

put simply, it’s the rate at which your body burns calories

Metabolism

2) Determine what influences your metabolism

Age- Your metabolism decreases by 5% every decade you age

Gender- Men burn calories quicker than women

Heredity- Can inherit your MR

Weight-

Metabolism

3) Estimating your resting metabolic rate (RMR)

RMR = 9.99w + 6.25s - 4.92a + 166g -161

OR use a calculator

Metabolism

5) Eat small frequent meals

Tend to eat less by eating small frequent meals rather than gorging

Metabolism

6) Drink ice cold water

Your body spends calories warming your body, and will therefore boost your metabolism

Metabolism

7) Boost your metabolism temporarily with exercise

Raise your heart rate and maintain for 30 minutes

Metabolism

8) Boost metabolism in the long run be weight training

Muscle uses more calories than fat, so boosting muscle mass will boost the number of calories your body uses

ONLY was to increase RMR which represents 60-70% of the calories you use in a day