The term "metabolic rate" describes how the body processes food using it for its various purposes. When our metabolic rate increases, we experience weight loss, less fatigue, and generally enjoy better health. However, as our metabolic rate slows down, weight gain can be a side effect.
Many times this is because we eat foods that negatively affect the metabolic rate in our bodies, disrupting many of its processes, including maintaining a normal weight. The foods below may be the culprits, and you should avoid them so that you can get back on track, especially if you're trying to lose weight.
The first item on the list is surprising since we all know that apples are a healthy fruit, but its bad effect on metabolic rate comes from what is added to it. In this case, they are antifungals that penetrate into apples and disrupt the metabolic rate in the body after they are eaten.
In a study published in 2012, researchers found that antifungal drugs caused mice to gain weight, concluding that the same problem could also occur in humans. Today there are many natural pesticides used to spray fields, and it is recommended you buy apples as well as other fruits and vegetables with a label stipulating that it's 'organic'. Otherwise, wash your apples well, peeling them if needed.
Vegetable oils, especially canola oil, contain high amounts of omega-6 fatty acids, which are essential for the body, but excessive consumption can disrupt your metabolic rate. In the past, Western diets had been relatively balanced in terms of the amounts of fatty acid consumed. But, due to an increased demand for processed products, consumption of omega-6 has increased, leading to a slow metabolism. Moreover, an excess of omega-6 fatty acids in the body causes insulin resistance, so that more carbohydrates become fat that builds up in the body, causing obesity and health problems as a result.
There is nothing like a bite of bread or hot pastries in the morning, but this is simply a bad way to start our days. These pastries are prepared from white wheat flour, which is actually whole wheat flour, with all its essential components, such as dietary fiber removed due to processing. What is left in the end is white flour, which has very little nutritional value and high glycemic value. This leads to insulin resistance and, like Canola oil causes the accumulation of fats in the body.
Many people suffer from lactose intolerance and are not even aware of the effects this problem has on their bodies. The casein protein and lactose sugar present in dairy products cause inflammatory processes in the body, resulting in "bloating" and accumulation of fluids that look like weight gain. These infections also cause irregularities in metabolism, leaving many people frustrated that they can’t lose weight.
To test whether you are sensitive to lactose, replace milk with an alternative, such as almond milk, for example, and examine the effect of the change on your body. If you’re less gassy, feel more comfortable and experience weight loss, lactose intolerance may be your culprit. In order to thoroughly examine the subject, it is recommended to consult a doctor for further confirmation.
As the years pass, researchers are finding more and more negative physical phenomena caused by excess sugar consumption, especially refined white sugar. As with lactose intolerance, sugar consumption causes the formation of harmful inflammatory processes in the body that disrupt the metabolic rate and cause bloating.
Moreover, the body does not digest sugars of this type well and what we are often left with is harmful leftovers in addition to a defective metabolism. According to the World Health Organization, we need to consume between 25-36 grams of sugar a day, but most of us eat several times more than this recommended amount. Today there are natural alternatives to sugar that can be eaten with different foods, and you can also calm the desire for sweets with fruit bars that supply the body with fiber, making you feel full.
Our metabolic rate decreases with every passing year, which makes us gain weight even if we make no change to our diets. In these cases, many people turn to carbonated and dietetic beverages that replace high-sugar drinks to "shave" a few calories from their daily diet. Despite the promise of these beverage names, their effect is completely opposite to your goal, which is maintaining or losing weight.
According to a study published in the science magazine “Nature”, consumption of diet soda drinks disrupts the balance of bacteria in the stomach and leads to a jump in blood sugar levels and an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Instead of replacing sugary beverages with diet drinks, water is the best alternative, and it also fills the body and contributes to a sense of natural satiety without any harmful components being added into it.
In today's world, we do not always have enough time to prepare meals during the day, so many of us buy frozen meals that can be warmed and eaten immediately. Apart from the harmful preservatives in these frozen meals, those that are labeled "low-calorie" may harm you. Like dietetic drinks, low-calorie meals are harmful to metabolism because of their composition and minimal calorie content.
This is because once our body does not consume the amount of food and calories it needs, it automatically slows the metabolic rate to maintain body weight, leading to a slowdown or weight gain. Moreover, such meals often contain a lot of sodium that causes fluid retention, as well as little fiber so that the food is not digested efficiently and the metabolism goes out of whack.
A low-protein diet does not contribute to your body because it needs these essential components to function properly. Proteins are the building blocks of our bodies, and without them, the metabolic rate, in favor of different systems, focuses on creating an "emergency reservoir of fat" to be used by the body when needed. Therefore, it is important to consume about 20-30 grams of protein in each meal to maintain a normal metabolism, which is not possible with low-protein diets that only harm our bodies.
Moderate consumption of alcohol is beneficial to the body in a variety of surprising ways but as with many other things, an excess of alcoholic beverages is harmful to the body. Excessive consumption of harmful alcohol harms and irritates the walls of the digestive system, thus interfering with their ability to absorb nutrients, vitamins, and minerals. As a result, our body does not get the vital components it needs from different foods, rather it enters into a state of long-term imbalance that may harm you.
Sea salt has become a popular substitute for regular table salt and many use this to season foods. Although this unique salt is a healthy supplement and a good substitute for regular table salt occasionally, it may also cause harm. Unlike normal salt, sea salt does not contain iodine, which is needed for normal thyroid activity, which regulates, among other things, metabolic rate.
When you do not consume enough iodine because you use sea salt, the thyroid gland is out of balance and thus everything that it is responsible for. To prevent this, you can replace table salt with sea salt sometimes, but don’t remove table salt from the menu altogether. Otherwise, you’ll need to make sure you consume this essential mineral in other ways.
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