12 Tuesday Jun 2018
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caffeine, calories, coffee, Connie Sellecca, conniesellecca, guilt-free, intelligence for your life, intelligenceforyourlife, metabolism
Here’s another reason to enjoy your daily coffee, guilt-free: It speeds up your metabolism. Caffeine accelerates the process of thermogenesis by 11% for up to 3 hours – which is how we convert calories into energy. That equals an extra 150 calories burned a day for the average person.
23 Monday May 2016
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Chinese, cholesterol, Connie Sellecca, conniesellecca, digestion, intelligence for your life, intelligenceforyourlife, lose weight, metabolism, Oolong, Oolong tea, weight loss, weightloss
If it’s tea time, choose Oolong tea. This Chinese staple can keep your cholesterol in check, aid digestion and increase metabolism. In one study, people who sipped oolong tea lost a pound a week without changing anything else!
05 Thursday May 2016
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brain, concentration, Connie Sellecca, conniesellecca, coworkers, Dr. Lenore Arab, eating at work, fatty acids, feeling full, health, healthy, intelligence for your life, intelligenceforyourlife, memory, metabolism, snack, UCLA, walnuts, work, work snack
Walnuts! That’s according to Dr. Lenore Arab, a disease prevention expert at UCLA. Walnuts also have a good dose of healthy fatty acids – that improve your metabolism and help you feel full. But on top of all that, a big reason why walnuts make a good WORK snack is because of how they affect the brain. According to Dr. Arab’s research, people who eat walnuts outperform non-walnut-eaters in terms of memory, concentration, and “information processing speed.” All you need are 6 or 7 walnuts a day to get a mental edge over your coworkers and improve your overall health.
04 Wednesday May 2016
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blood clots, Connie Sellecca, conniesellecca, intelligence for your life, intelligenceforyourlife, lipids, Mayo Clinic, metabolism, play-doh, soft tissue, stand up, stretch, stretch your legs
According to the Mayo Clinic, we sit for 10 hours a day. And that not only slows our metabolism to a crawl – and raises our risk for blood clots – it also makes our rear-ends bigger! Because it causes the soft tissue in the behind to spread out in 3 directions. Imagine squishing play-doh with your palm and you get the idea. And when the cells in your rear have all that pressure put on them, they respond by generating more lipids – also known as fat! To avoid that, stand up and move every hour for at least 2 minutes.
17 Thursday Sep 2015
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blood sugar, burn calories, Connie Sellecca, conniesellecca, energy, get moving, get up and walk, intelligence for your life, intelligenceforyourlife, long life, longer life, metabolic slowdown, metabolism, move, stairs, Vanderbilt University, walking
The average person sits for at least 8 hours a day – or more than 50 hours a week. That’s according to Vanderbilt University. The cost of all that sitting-down-time? When you’re sitting, your body undergoes a metabolic slowdown. You use less blood sugar for energy, and you burn fewer calories. Sitting also decreases the activity of an enzyme that eliminates fat in the blood.
The worst part? Even regular exercise won’t protect you. You have to take frequent walking or standing breaks during your 8 hours of sitting to offset it. Ultimately, spending more time of your feet means a longer life.
22 Monday Jun 2015
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First, eat organic. Researchers found that dieters who ate foods grown with pesticides had lower metabolisms. That’s because the toxins interfere with the energy losing process, making it harder to lose weight.
Next, Stand up. Researchers at Missouri University found that 4 hours of inactivity can cause a shutdown of an enzyme that whisks fat out of your blood stream. This causes you to store fat instead of using it for energy. Experts suggest to burn more fat, break up periods of downtime by standing up during phone calls.
Finally, drink cold water. 6 cups a day can raise your resting metabolic rate enough to lose 5 pounds a year. That’s because your body uses more energy to heat the cold water to body temperature, burning fat in the process.
15 Monday Jun 2015
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4 hours or more at a stretch causes an enzyme that controls fat and cholesterol metabolism to nearly shut down. So get up and move – walk around the block or down the hall at work to fire up your metabolism again.
01 Monday Jun 2015
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appetite, calcitriol, calcium, calories, cheese, chocolate, Connie Sellecca, conniesellecca, cravings, dairy, dark chocolate, diet, digestive system, fattening, Harvard University, Hershey's, Hershey's kisses, hormone, induldge, intelligence for your life, intelligenceforyourlife, lose weight, metabolism, milk, monounsaturated fatty acids, O-E-A, peanut butter, supplement, waistline, weight loss, weightloss
The first one is a staple in my kitchen: Peanut butter. A Harvard University study found that people who ate peanut butter twice a week lost more weight than those who didn’t. That’s because the monounsaturated fatty acids in peanut butter signal our digestive system to release a compound called O-E-A– which literally turns down our appetite, and turns up our metabolism.
Next are Dairy products. When we’re low on calcium, our bodies produce a hormone called calcitriol that triggers the production of fat cells. So, more of what we eat winds up on our waistline. And taking a calcium supplement isn’t the answer. Scientists still don’t know why, but people who have a glass of milk, or an ounce of low-fat cheese every day produce less fat-storing calcitriol than those who take calcium in pill form.
The last food that makes dieters smile: Chocolate… especially dark chocolate. Studies show that the food dieters crave most often, and most intensely, is chocolate. And since unsatisfied cravings lead to binge eating, occasionally indulging in chocolate can keep your eating in check, and leave you thousands of calories ahead. Just be sure to limit your serving size to one ounce… Which is equal to 6 Hershey’s kisses.
27 Wednesday May 2015
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A study found that adding a-quarter teaspoon of chili pepper to each meal can prevent overeating. Mainly because we tend to slow down and take fewer bites when our mouth feels like it’s on fire… Which explains why many people in the study stopped eating when they’d consumed just 75% of their daily calories! And as a bonus, the capsaicin in chili peppers boosts our metabolism, helping us burn an extra 100 calories a day.
02 Thursday Apr 2015
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bedtime, Connie Sellecca, conniesellecca, Dr. Mark Hyman, eating late, fat burning, intelligence for your life, intelligenceforyourlife, late night snacks, lose weight, metabolism, omega-3 fatty acids, sleep, snacking, snacks, Ultra-Metabolism, weight loss, weightloss
Then keep this in mind from Dr. Mark Hyman – author of “Ultra-Metabolism”…
Stop eating 3 hours before bed. Our metabolism slows down while we sleep, and shifts from fat burning to fat storing. So that midnight snack stays with you a loooong time.
