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Hi! I’m Luigi Gratton, Vice President of Nutrition Education at Herbalife and welcome
to Health Talk. Now we are going to discuss your metabolism. Now for those of you don’t
know what metabolism is, it’s the rate in which your body burns calories in order for
you to breathe, support blood circulation, maintain organ function, and extract energy
from your food. You see your body burns calories much like a car burns fuel but as most of
us is painfully aware some cars just don’t get the miles per gallon. So how do we start
burning calories faster? Well a common misconception is that your genes determine your metabolic
rate. In fact, we often blame our slow metabolism for our inability to keep our weight under
control but the truth is that your metabolism is completely in your control. Now I don’t
mean that you should eat a grapefruit with every meal, that’s a myth. What will increase
your metabolism is high protein and low calorie diet accompanied by regular exercise. You
see, protein helps by adding muscle mass and cutting calories helps by reducing fat. Every
pound of fat free mass in your body burns about fourteen calories per day and that’s
just at rest. Now it’s true that your metabolic rate will slow down a bit when you cut calories.
Your body will try to conserve the fuel it has when it knows that it has less of it.
We can off-set this small change however with exercise. Engaging in thirty minutes of activity
every day is proven to minimize weight and maximize your metabolic rate. For added nutritional
support, try Herbalife’s Herbal Tea Concentrate, a dietary supplement that can boost your energy
as you change your diet. It tastes great, hot or cold and comes in a convenient ready
to mix powder. Also try Herbalife’s Total Control Tablets as a compliment to your new
weight management regimen. Total Control dietary supplement contains green tea and many other
powerful herbs to boost your energy level and may help you burn more fat throughout
the day. You can order these or any other Herbalife products today from a Herbalife
Independent Distributor. This concludes today’s discussion of Health Talk, I’m Luigi Gratton
reminding you to reve up your daily regimen and put your metabolism to work for you.