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Let’s start with the most obvious question first – What is metabolism?The amount of calories you burn in a day is a result of the millions of chemical reactions that occur in your body in order to sustain life. We measure the amount of energy that is used by our bodies in either Calories or Joules, both are really nothing more than simple measures of heat energy.This ‘calorie cost of metabolism’ is what we refer to as your metabolic rate – simply how many calories you burned in a given period of time. This is what most people are thinking of when they say ‘metabolism’ – the amount of calories you burn in any given day.Now here is where it gets really interesting: The metabolic rates in different parts of your body are not all the same. Some parts of your body need more calories than others because they are more ‘metabolically active’

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