Any actual food that speeds up metabolism?
vm007
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Hi,
Any actual food or food groups that speeds up metabolism? Like science backed not anecdotal evidence. For example, I've heard "spices" help and caffeine does too. Anything else?
Any actual food or food groups that speeds up metabolism? Like science backed not anecdotal evidence. For example, I've heard "spices" help and caffeine does too. Anything else?
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No.
Some spices have a minor and short-lived effect, as does caffeine. It's seriously majoring in the minors stuff to try to gain any advantage via stuff like that. Like, you could go for a 10 minute walk and burn more calories than all of them combined.16 -
Nony_Mouse wrote: »No.
Some spices have a minor and short-lived effect, as does caffeine. It's seriously majoring in the minors stuff to try to gain any advantage via stuff like that. Like, you could go for a 10 minute walk and burn more calories than all of them combined.
I assume the short lived effect is also of negligible percent and shouldn't be worried about eh2 -
Coffee or green tea? Spicy foods increase the metabolism about 8% for a few hours or about 40 calories. However, it also suppresses the appetite. A study concluded that a group of average sized men eating hot sauce with meals ate 200 fewer calories per day.3
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The only way to materially speed up metabolism (the number of calories our body burns in a day) is to increase activity or exercise. Not any foods or spices or anything else like that.
But the reality is we don't need to "speed up" our metabolism. That is rarely if ever the issue preventing weight loss. The issue is overeating, and taking in too many calories for what our body burns.11 -
There are no foods or tricks or diet fads that speed up metabolism unfortunately.5
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Some foods may speed up metabolism by the tiniest of amounts. I'm talking about a few extra calories burned at the most. It would be much more effective to go for a 5-minute walk instead.5
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Exercise.2
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Nope.
Build muscle, though.1 -
The food at that cafe that's a ten minute walk down the road should do it.
But only if you don't drive there.3 -
Yes but not enough to have any significant effect on weight.
Not an extremely Scientific link as there's not much mention about how the study was controllde, but better than "eat this one food to lose belly fat"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4bPKxRQBHzNgJmj6W832b4C/can-i-speed-up-my-metabolism1 -
Caffeine will make you a bit fidgety and result in burning a few more calories, that's about it.
The thing to consider is what metabolism is, including that it regulates everything that happens in your body. Anything that could truly cause it to use more calories is essentially guaranteed to uncouple some rather important process and thus have health risks. People who have actually truly high metabolisms tend to also have a host of other health concerns. I believe just about any of the drugs that have a noticeable impact on metabolism are banned, or at least not prescripable on label for weight loss.3 -
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Hi,
Any actual food or food groups that speeds up metabolism? Like science backed not anecdotal evidence. For example, I've heard "spices" help and caffeine does too. Anything else?
You have gotten the answers you need on your actual question. I wonder though why you think your metabolism needs improving?1 -
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kshama2001 wrote: »
There is some very, very limited, very, very preliminary research suggesting that (using a loaded term =>) less processed foods may also have a slightly higher TEF than highly processed ones, the "processed-ness" of the latter speculated to be making the nutrients (which may be less numerous, or not) more bioavailable with less intra-body processing.
Speculative, at this point, and a very small effect, even if true.2 -
Hi,
Any actual food or food groups that speeds up metabolism? Like science backed not anecdotal evidence. For example, I've heard "spices" help and caffeine does too. Anything else?
You have gotten the answers you need on your actual question. I wonder though why you think your metabolism needs improving?
Lol I've been travelling a lot and I thought if I could include "those" items in my diet it'll aid in keeping my weight under control.
I guess not lol3 -
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Donuts?2
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nitalieben wrote: »Nope.
Build muscle, though.
Even that's a false economy too.
Putting on an extra 1lbs of muscle, which is no easy feat and requires some serious work, time and dedication. Will increase your daily calories burned by about 10 ( between 7-13) calories per day. So no, building muscle while good for you won't turn you into a calorie burning machine or even have any noticeable impact to your metabolism.5 -
paperpudding wrote: »
Not sure what the OP means by speed up "metabolism" but technically donuts could. There is evidence to suggest that heavier people have a higher BMR.0 -
^^ well, yes - but i dont think thats what OP meant.....2
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