Best Foods for boosting Metabolism?

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  • Sarauk2sf
    Sarauk2sf Posts: 28,072 Member
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    The only 'food' that has a more than minuscule impact on your metabolism, and even then it's not that significant, is caffeine.
  • jilliew
    jilliew Posts: 255 Member
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    Hrm. I learned something! I was going to make a smart-mouth responce involving the fact that all food boosts your metabolism, but I see that some of you suggest NO food boosts metabolism, rather it's physical activity. Which, when you think about it, makes perfect sense. Why else would we have to pick our activity level when we sign up for this place? Thanks for educating me, peeps!
  • BrettPGH
    BrettPGH Posts: 4,720 Member
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    Not processed foods, you want whole foods, lean meats, fresh fruits and veggies. These foods will help you with weight loss.

    Stop eating engineered crap that is designed to make you want more and not feel full. Why do so many people drink coke? Why can't they quit? It's because it's engineered to be addicting. I'm not picking on coke. Pick nearly any processed food out there. Lay's potato chips slogan is "You can't eat just one", this is true because that's what they are trying for. I can eat a whole big bag of chips and not feel full. Give me a cup of broccoli and I'm good for a while.

    Nothing tastes as good as fit feels.

    Just one question. How do they "engineer" the food to make you want more and not feel full?

    I'm not saying eating "whole" foods is bad. But I'm just sick of this idea that anything you buy from a store was created in a lab by a mad scientist and alters your entire body and brain chemistry.

    Generally they just add salt or sugar to make food tastier. Not great, but not the work of Dr. Doom either.
  • EatClean_WashUrNuts
    EatClean_WashUrNuts Posts: 1,590 Member
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    Not processed foods, you want whole foods, lean meats, fresh fruits and veggies. These foods will help you with weight loss.

    Stop eating engineered crap that is designed to make you want more and not feel full. Why do so many people drink coke? Why can't they quit? It's because it's engineered to be addicting. I'm not picking on coke. Pick nearly any processed food out there. Lay's potato chips slogan is "You can't eat just one", this is true because that's what they are trying for. I can eat a whole big bag of chips and not feel full. Give me a cup of broccoli and I'm good for a while.

    Nothing tastes as good as fit feels.

    This sounds like Dr. Oz

    There is nothing that will significantly boost your metabolism. Stop searching for a magic bean, eat moderately with a caloric deficit and exercise.
  • now_or_never13
    now_or_never13 Posts: 1,575 Member
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    Not processed foods, you want whole foods, lean meats, fresh fruits and veggies. These foods will help you with weight loss.

    Stop eating engineered crap that is designed to make you want more and not feel full. Why do so many people drink coke? Why can't they quit? It's because it's engineered to be addicting. I'm not picking on coke. Pick nearly any processed food out there. Lay's potato chips slogan is "You can't eat just one", this is true because that's what they are trying for. I can eat a whole big bag of chips and not feel full. Give me a cup of broccoli and I'm good for a while.

    Nothing tastes as good as fit feels.

    It is hard to give up coke due to the caffiene in it. Caffiene can be addicting.
  • baddbob
    baddbob Posts: 133 Member
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    Okay...think about it. When you eat spicy foods, especially things with peppers like jalapeño and habanera, one seems to break out in little beads of sweat on the forehead. What causes that??? I'm guessing an increase in your metabolism.
  • baddbob
    baddbob Posts: 133 Member
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    ....also....when I eat, my heart rate goes up and my BP goes up. I would suppose that is defined as an increased metabolism. I therefore try to eat 6 times a day when I was losing the most weight. The idea was to keep my metabolism up and not have big peaks a valleys during the day. Never eat large quantities of food, but to spread it out. It worked. That takes me back to the argument that food does increase the metabolism.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
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    Okay...think about it. When you eat spicy foods, especially things with peppers like jalapeño and habanera, one seems to break out in little beads of sweat on the forehead. What causes that??? I'm guessing an increase in your metabolism.

    so when you sweat your metabolism increases, really? Is there a study on this...
  • fiberartist219
    fiberartist219 Posts: 1,865 Member
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    Honestly, I think exercise does more for your metabolism than any food does.

    However, I do feel like certain foods slow me down more than others. Pasta for example, makes me tired after I eat it. I think it has something to do with the way my hormones react to starches. I think there are more highs and lows with foods that have sugar or starch. Fiber and protein, however, don't affect your insulin as much. They digest differently. I don't really understand all the science behind it. I just know that starchy, sugary, or greasy foods make me want to take a nap.
  • lpina2mi
    lpina2mi Posts: 425 Member
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    Metabolism is what energy you are burning up now. If you have eatened food recently, then chances are there is glucose available in your bloodstream to burn. If not, then your body goes looking for fuel elsewhere...your fat stores or muscle tissue. There is a lot out there on how to eat, what to eat, when to eat, plus the same particulars for working out.

    But metabolism is only half of the food intake equation. During digestion the chyme that exits your stomach (highly acidic) and goes squishing through your small intestines (somewhat alkaline) to be bathed in squirts (highly alkaline) from both your gall bladder and pancreas is further broken down into components for body renewal and building. What is left over goes to the large intestines which largely reclaims the water and discharges the waste.

    Pay attention to the small intestine, because this is how energy/glucose gets into your bloodstream and if more goes there than what is needed at the time, then the excess gets put into FAT STORAGE. This may seem strange that something so sweet is so destructive to bodily organs, but it is true: unspent sugar is poison. That why the pancreas excrets insulin--to prevents sugar from traveling through your arteries just waiting around to be used. A well-functioning pancreas does not waste time on idle sugat; it escorts it to fat storage. When this does not happen, all those awlful side affects of diabetes enter the picture. Think blindness and gangrene in unchecked cases.

    Educate yourself on this part of digestion and you may gain insights on ways to improve you diet so that digestion can provide you with optimal fuel, when you need it AND raw materials for body renewal and building. Find ways to get not only the right quantity and delivery schedule of calories, but ALSO calories that provide enough vitamins, minerals, digestive enzymes, and hydration to do the work right.

    So I don't know of any miracle metabolizing foods, but I have experienced that too much sugar--in any form--results in fat accumulation and once in storage takes a heck of a lot work to get rid of it,

    It also does matter what you eat nutrition-wise. Although there will always be personal variability of what is optimal for any one person the old programmer's saying holds true for all: Garbage-in/Garbage-out (GIGO). See the Sunday NYT mag from 24Feb the cover story is about manufactured foods.
  • dangtienthanh97
    dangtienthanh97 Posts: 24
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    I think there is only food that your metabolism digest faster ! Like veggie ;) lean meat blah blah :P Exercise build your metabolism upppp
  • nz_deevaa
    nz_deevaa Posts: 12,209 Member
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    The only 'food' that has a more than minuscule impact on your metabolism, and even then it's not that significant, is caffeine.

    Which is why I make sure I enjoy my latte every day. It's a miracle food you know.
  • leemay001
    leemay001 Posts: 13 Member
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    Honestly, I think exercise does more for your metabolism than any food does.

    However, I do feel like certain foods slow me down more than others. Pasta for example, makes me tired after I eat it. I think it has something to do with the way my hormones react to starches. I think there are more highs and lows with foods that have sugar or starch. Fiber and protein, however, don't affect your insulin as much. They digest differently. I don't really understand all the science behind it. I just know that starchy, sugary, or greasy foods make me want to take a nap.

    I believe the reason we feel tired after a meal (especially a big meal or one that is hard for the body to break down) is due to the huge amount of blood that our digestive system needs.... for digestion >.>

    In other words, there's more blood is your belly and less in your brain - thus you get tired for a while. That's what I've always believed anyway.
  • psuLemon
    psuLemon Posts: 38,401 MFP Moderator
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    Not processed foods, you want whole foods, lean meats, fresh fruits and veggies. These foods will help you with weight loss.

    Stop eating engineered crap that is designed to make you want more and not feel full. Why do so many people drink coke? Why can't they quit? It's because it's engineered to be addicting. I'm not picking on coke. Pick nearly any processed food out there. Lay's potato chips slogan is "You can't eat just one", this is true because that's what they are trying for. I can eat a whole big bag of chips and not feel full. Give me a cup of broccoli and I'm good for a while.

    Nothing tastes as good as fit feels.

    Eating processed foods will not stop fat loss. It might mask a few lbs due to water weight, but exercise can do the same thing. While eating whole foods is good for satiety and overall health, it's not a requirement for fat loss. Many of us eat about 80% clean and have continuously gotten more fit and have low body fat. And I know for dang sure, there is NO way in hell I am giving up my Chipotle burrito's and pizza. I exercise 6 days a week so I can eat 2500 calories and consistently lose 1 lb per week. And if you look at my diary, you will find stuff like milkyways, chipotle, red robin, etc...
  • beckysiz
    beckysiz Posts: 54 Member
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    Not processed foods, you want whole foods, lean meats, fresh fruits and veggies. These foods will help you with weight loss.

    Stop eating engineered crap that is designed to make you want more and not feel full. Why do so many people drink coke? Why can't they quit? It's because it's engineered to be addicting. I'm not picking on coke. Pick nearly any processed food out there. Lay's potato chips slogan is "You can't eat just one", this is true because that's what they are trying for. I can eat a whole big bag of chips and not feel full. Give me a cup of broccoli and I'm good for a while.

    Nothing tastes as good as fit feels.

    Just one question. How do they "engineer" the food to make you want more and not feel full?

    I'm not saying eating "whole" foods is bad. But I'm just sick of this idea that anything you buy from a store was created in a lab by a mad scientist and alters your entire body and brain chemistry.

    Generally they just add salt or sugar to make food tastier. Not great, but not the work of Dr. Doom either.


    From Kaiserpermente:

    The large amount of fat, sugar, and salt in processed foods changes your brain's chemistry to make you crave those foods. In fact, sugar and fat release the same chemicals in your brain involved in drug, alcohol, and gambling addiction.

    Hard to resist
    You might want to eat more fatty, sugary, and salty foods even when you aren't hungry. You might not be able to stop even after you're full. Just thinking about or seeing an image of a food high in fat, sugar, or salt can cause you to want to eat it. This addiction response is called "conditioned hypereating."

    Also, aspartame and MSG...
  • ambervaldez79
    ambervaldez79 Posts: 210 Member
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    MSG disguised in MANY different names is added to MANY different foods that are processed. Supposedly it is addictive and really bad. I am by no means an expert but I keep seeing stuff about it.

    Also, these companies want people to continue buying their processed nutrient sparse ****. They have to make it tasty with some addictive chemicals right? I wish I could say that I didn't crave the tastiness of awful foods but I do.

    I have many times when I bite into something really unhealthy and think, "why does this taste so damn good?!"
  • ambervaldez79
    ambervaldez79 Posts: 210 Member
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    Becky, did you see the documentary Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead? I think that's the name of it. It was eye opening. I knew aspertame was a bad. I didn't know it killed brain cell though. :/
  • Acg67
    Acg67 Posts: 12,142 Member
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    MSG disguised in MANY different names is added to MANY different foods that are processed. Supposedly it is addictive and really bad. I am by no means an expert but I keep seeing stuff about it.

    Also, these companies want people to continue buying their processed nutrient sparse ****. They have to make it tasty with some addictive chemicals right? I wish I could say that I didn't crave the tastiness of awful foods but I do.

    I have many times when I bite into something really unhealthy and think, "why does this taste so damn good?!"

    Better avoid the below foods, ahhhhh glutamate!

    Free glutamate content of foods (mg per 100g)
    roquefort cheese 1280
    parmesan cheese 1200
    soy sauce 1090
    walnuts 658
    fresh tomato juice 260
    grape juice 258
    peas 200
    mushrooms 180
    broccoli 176
    tomatoes 140
    mushrooms 140
    oysters 137
    corn 130
    potatoes 102
    chicken 44
    mackerel 36
    beef 33
    eggs 23
    human milk 22
  • beckysiz
    beckysiz Posts: 54 Member
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    Becky, did you see the documentary Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead? I think that's the name of it. It was eye opening. I knew aspertame was a bad. I didn't know it killed brain cell though. :/

    Yes, I have watched all the documentaries about food.. I am a food knowledge junkie!
  • beckysiz
    beckysiz Posts: 54 Member
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    MSG disguised in MANY different names is added to MANY different foods that are processed. Supposedly it is addictive and really bad. I am by no means an expert but I keep seeing stuff about it.

    Also, these companies want people to continue buying their processed nutrient sparse ****. They have to make it tasty with some addictive chemicals right? I wish I could say that I didn't crave the tastiness of awful foods but I do.

    I have many times when I bite into something really unhealthy and think, "why does this taste so damn good?!"

    not all foods that contain aspartame and MSG are labeled either, like milk.

    It tastes so good because they alter it to make it that way! If I eat a potato chip I can guarantee you that I wil eat 3/4 of the bag. I have no self control when it comes to certain foods... which is why I don't buy them.

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