Page 9 - Boost Your Metabolism (Marie Egyed) : Flip It & Read It

For example, there are scientific ways to increase your metabolism, and
thus enable your body to burn more calories. Eating certain foods more
frequently is one way to do this. Another way to visibly lose weight - at least
on a perceived, temporary level - is to sit in a steam room for a few hours.
I’ll cover these more closely later in this book.

Whereas eating the right foods is a real, proven weight loss method through
increased metabolic change, the steam room method is just temporary
because the lost weight is merely water and will return as swiftly as it
"melted-away".

The point to remember here is that not all weight loss or weight gain is
connected to metabolism (as with the steam room example).

Low-Fat Labels

Another reason that people might be confused is because there are a lot of
food and supplement companies on the market who don't want you to know
fact from fiction. They want you to believe that eating their “low-fat" or
“diet” foods or using their products is going to somehow speed up your
metabolism.

While some low-fat foods might play a role in an overall eating program that
is designed to speed up metabolism, merely eating foods that come from
packaging that screams "LOW-FAT!" won't do anything.

In fact, believe it or not, many people actually gain weight when they eat too
many "low-fat" products. Many of these products are laden with calories
that still must be burned off or they turn into body fat.

In addition, they are typically so over-processed that they can barely pass
for “food” at all.