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Macronutrients Crucial Body Power

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Macronutrients are crucial nutrients for your body to absorb. They are used for the storage of fats, energy for your muscles, helps children to develop properly, balances out your fluids, immune system, hormones, and used to form RNA, DNA, and ATP. 3 Essential Macronutrients Your body utilizes three essential macronutrients in large amounts - fat, proteins, and carbohydrates - for your body to function properly by using their amino acids, and fatty acids, and to provide the body with energy (Streit).  Fat Fats store fat soluble vitamins and nutrients inside the liver and fatty tissues and contain essential fatty acids such as cholesterol, and triglycerides, to help keep your body warm and protect organs (Dutchen). Triglycerides are packaged into chylomicrons for transport through the bloodstream, activating lipoprotein lipase once they reach fat and muscle tissues, which means they break them down to be absorbed by muscles for energy and fat for storage (Biointeractive). The heart,

Exercising Prevents Metabolic Diseases

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Making Exercising a Top Priority Exercising should be a top priority in your life. It will help you sleep, keep your weight under control, reduce your risk for metabolic diseases, and help you to live longer. Most exercises consist of aerobics, anaerobic, and agility training.  Exercising Increases Your Lifespan Exercising adds years to your life, helps with weight loss, prevents cancer and heart conditions, improves your sex life, helps people sleep better, and improves your lung functions (Mayo Clinic). Exercise is proven to help you live longer, providing improved functioning inside your brain along with stronger bones and muscles - especially as you age (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Include Family and Friends Make exercise fun by including your family and friends in the routines, choose activities besides the gym like basketball, horseback riding, tennis, or even an evening stroll around the neighborhood (Robinson et al).  Sometimes including friends and family in t

Boost Metabolism Without Reducing Calories

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Eat Healthy Without Worrying About Calories Metabolism is more about energy than weight loss. Usually, articles and other materials for boosting your metabolism are related to weight loss. It is true that metabolism has to do with burning calories, but obese people usually have a high natural basal metabolic rate. Metabolism is more about the energy it receives from your diet and how it is disbursed throughout your body for vital functions.  Calorie Restrictions is Bad Calorie restrictions and rapid weight loss makes it increasingly difficult to lose more weight as it disrupts your basal metabolic rate (BMR) by slowing it down; a faster BMR burns more calories at rest, but it does not necessarily lead to weight loss because obese people usually have higher BMR's naturally (Cleveland Clinic). Metabolism is Not About Weight Loss or Gain Research has shown that people who consumed more of their daily calories as protein, had a higher metabolic rate (Olsen). You gain weight by taking i