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Improving your metabolism for overall health-By Dr Harold Gunatillake   Metabolism is the result of chemical processes that occur in your body to create energy to maintain life, health and wellbeing. It participates in cell growth, maintenance of cell activities and can be compared to a motor engine that keeps working to provide the motion and other activities that assist in the process. Boosting your energy levels is one way of slimming through the processes of burning calories. Some people inherit speedy metabolism and they are referred to as the ‘High metabolic types. Men tends to burn more calories at rest than women. This rate of burning calories at rest is referred to as the, ’Basic Metabolic Rate’ (BMR). It is defined as the rate of energy expenditure per unit time at rest. To lose weight you need to reduce your calorie intake below your total daily calorie requirement indicated ...