4 Foods That Increase Your Metabolism
What foods you should eat if you want to increase your metabolism?
First of all, why does everyone always talk about metabolism?
Well, your metabolism is the process your body will use to make and burn energy from food.
Your metabolism helps you to breathe, think, digest, circulate blood, stay cool when it’s really hot, and stay warm when it’s cold.
It is a common belief that raising your metabolism helps you burn more calories and increase weight loss.
So try to boost it with these 4 foods, as a start, and see for yourself.
1) Protein
It is well documented that protein increases metabolism more than carbohydrates and fat. This is one of the reasons why you lose more weight when you replace fat with protein instead of carbohydrates. Protein is found in i.e. meat, fish, poultry, dairy products, eggs and legumes.
2) Strong spices
Chilli and mustard are perhaps the two best suggestions for ingredients in the food that can increase metabolism. Chilli and mustard should be eaten regularly so that the burning is often stimulated. However, the metabolism only increases very slightly, so it takes a really long time before it can be seen on the scale unless you jump on the Chili wave and eat a chilli every day.
3) Caffeine and green tea
Caffeinated beverages, such as tea and coffee, can also increase metabolism, studies have shown. The body apparently gets used to the combustion-stimulating effect when drinking coffee and tea regularly, but it is unclear how great and lasting the effect of tea and coffee is.
Several studies have shown that green tea increases metabolism. The effect of green tea is not due to caffeine, but other bioactive substances in the tea and the effect is less if you drink both coffee that contains caffeine and green tea.
A cup of strong coffee contains 100-200 mg of caffeine, which has an invigorating effect and stimulates the circulation, so that heart rate and blood pressure increase. In addition, the metabolism increases, but only in people who rarely drink coffee where the body is not used and adapted to a relatively high daily dose. Also be aware that many times coffee and cake belong together, and that gives a plus on the calorie account.
4) Dietary supplements
Supplements that can increase metabolism typically contain tyrosine (an amino acid from protein), capsaicin (the active ingredient in chilli), catechins (the active ingredients in green tea) and caffeine.
Dietary supplements with that composition increase the metabolism by 20 kcal in the following four hours, a Danish study has shown. But you can also consider whether or not to make 20 bouncers every four hours and burn 20 kcal that way instead of swallowing a pill that is both very expensive and that you get very little out of!