What is metabolism?

What is metabolism?

Body and energy

Living beings in all their forms need energy to sustain their lives, and humans also need great energy to carry out all their vital and kinetic processes in their bodies. Man derives his energy from food, but is not ready to consume it as energy within the body, it must be converted into energy through a process called metabolism or metabolism. Without this process, humans can not benefit from the food they eat. What is metabolism? How does it occur?

Definition of metabolism

Metabolism is one of the vital processes that occur within the human body and organisms in general. It is responsible for producing energy within the cells of the body by destroying the nutrients digested within the digestive system and converting them into different forms of energy by passing through a series of reactions Chemical, and metabolism is the process by which different cells and tissues are constructed and destroyed. [1]

Function of metabolism

The main function of metabolism is to provide the necessary energy or calories to cover the function of the body or maintain vital functions. He is an organizer and director of energy in the body, and thousands of metabolic processes may occur at the same time. Muscle metabolism is a great way to maintain it, build it, and do the tasks it needs. Therefore, a person with a larger muscle mass is more metabolized by the body than a person with a larger fat mass and less metabolism.

Metabolism plays an important role and is closely related to weight, weightlessness, and weight gain. Those who try to lose weight increase their metabolism to consume more energy during the day, especially during rest. The metabolic rate is determined by a number of factors in general, such as body size. The higher the body weight and the size of the body, the higher its metabolic rate, and it is also determined by sex; males in general have a higher metabolic rate than females, and other factors that determine the proportion of metabolism is Age. [1]

Method of Metabolism

The metabolism is divided into two main parts:

• Demolition : (English: Catabolism), and during which cracking food; Kalkrbohadarat, fats, proteins and convert them into different forms of energy according to the need of the body, thermal , such as energy when feeling cold, or necessary for the movement of human energy when exercising , or others. [1]

• Building : (English: Anabolism), and which cells using the rest of the food resulting from the demolition process for the various types of cells and tissues of the body building, this process decreases with increasing age of human , as higher as possible in children, so the ability to build various tissues The highest possible, and this capacity is in the elderly are very few, and this is what is observed when a break in the bones occurs in the elderly. [1]

Human can increase the metabolic rate during the rest period and through a number of things , including increasing the intensity of exercise , it is possible when running, for example , increase the speed of running thirty two seconds intermittently, thereby increasing the rate of metabolism in the body after the completion of the exercise, and Muscles tend to consume more energy than fat. When two people have the same height and weight, while one weight is due to the accumulation of fat and the other from the muscles , the metabolic rate of the other is much higher From the first to the extent possible to double, and studies have also found that some foods raise the rate of metabolism such as green tea. [2]

Diseases related to metabolism

Metabolic syndrome is a disease discovered in the late 1980s by Gerald Riaffen, and is produced mainly from obesity and advancing age or genetic causes. [3] This syndrome causes the following serious diseases: [3]

• Type 2 diabetes .
• Abdominal obesity.
• Hypertension.
• Disorders of blood fats.
• Low levels of good cholesterol and bad rise.
• Rise in uric acid .
• Coagulation plus blood.
• Damage occurs in major blood vessels, such as: coronary arteries, carotid arteries.
  
  To prevent the occurrence of metabolic syndrome, the person must increase the work of metabolism in the body through sports and movement constantly, which stimulates the work of metabolism in the body and reduce the proportion of fat in the body, and increase the proportion of muscle mass , as well as to be followed to prevent the disease, About fatty foods such as fast food. [4]
  
  Useful foods to increase metabolism

Foods that play a large role in the metabolism and increase metabolism, for example foods saturated with oils and fats reduce the work of metabolism to the lowest levels, and foods that increase and stimulate the body's metabolism are:

• Chili : Chili is stimulated to burn fat by speeding the metabolism, increasing the heartbeat. [5]

• Citrus : Vitamin C found in citrus stimulates an increase in metabolic rate due to the presence of dietary fiber in it. [5]

• Coffee : The caffeine in the coffee works to increase body activity and increase the burning process. [6]

• Apple vinegar : Pectin fibers present in it have the ability to burn fat, and stimulate the speed of metabolism. [6]

• Spices : act to speed up body metabolism and fat burning, such as: turmeric, cinnamon, cumin. [5]

References

1- ^ A b T w "metabolize" , medical , 11/08/2015. Acting.
2- ↑ "How do you speed up your metabolism and burn fat in your body?" , Web Medicine . Acting.
3- ^ A b "metabolic syndrome" , Web Medicine .
4- ↑ Feldeisen SE, Tucker KL (2007), Physical activity in prevention and treatment of the metabolic syndrome , Page 76-85.
5- ^ A b t " the best foods that stimulate metabolism" metabolism "process" , every day medical information . Acting.
6- ^ A b Dietitian Rasha Suleiman, "14 kinds of food increases the burning of calories" , Yasour . Acting.

By: Ibrahim Abu Ghazala