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  How Exercise Boosts Your Metabolism?   Metabolism is a term that describes all the chemical reactions in your body that keep your body alive and functioning. Your metabolism is also responsible for converting nutrients from the foods you eat into fuel. This provides your body with the energy it needs to breathe, move, digest food, circulate blood, and repair damaged tissues and cells.  The higher your metabolic rate, the more calories you burn at rest. Many factors can affect your metabolism, including your age, diet, sex, body size, and health status. There are several evidence-based strategies that can help increase your metabolism to support weight management and overall health. Ways to increase your metabolis m: 1. Eat plenty of protein at every meal Eating food can temporarily increase your metabolism for a few hours. This is called the thermic effect of food (TEF). It’s caused by the extra calories required to digest, absorb, and process the nutrients in your...

  Exercise and Weight Loss   Exercise means being more physically active. Although people appropriately focus on diet when they're trying to lose weight, being active also is an essential component of a weight-loss program. When you're active, your body uses energy (calories) to move, helping to burn the calories you take in with food you eat.  When losing weight, more physical activity increases the number of calories your body uses for energy or “burns off.” The burning of calories through physical activity, combined with reducing the number of calories you eat, creates a “calorie deficit” that results in weight loss. Carrying around too much weight feels uncomfortable, and it can also damage your health. To reap the health benefits of exercise, it is recommended that you to perform some form of aerobic exercise at least three times a week for a minimum of 20 minutes per session. However, more than 20 minutes is better if you want to actually lose weight. Incorporating ...

  Alice in wonderland syndrome (AIWS) is a rare neurological disorder characterized by distortion of the visual perception, the body image and the experience of time. People may see things smaller than they are, feel their body alter in size and experience any of the syndrome's numerous other symptoms. Since there are many other known causes of AIWS, Diagnostics requires a thorough neurological work-up. In children, the most common cause is brain inflammation, In adults it is migraine. In the medical not more than 180 individual patients have been described, 50% whom recovered.  Causes  Researchers believe unusual electrical activities in the brain causes blood flow to the part of brain that process your environment and experience visual perception. This unusual electrical activity may be the result of several causes. Although more research is required, Migraine is considered the leading cause for AIWS in adults. Infection is the primary cause for AIWS in children. Other ...