Drinking ice-cold water may also help to boost your overall metabolic rate as well.

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Sitting too much can cause back and neck pain and a slowed metabolic rate.

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These may include having a low metabolic rate in ecosystems where energy is in short supply.

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Lean body mass is the primary determinant of your metabolic rate how much energy (calories) your body uses each day.

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Other foods have different ways of increasing the rate at which we burn calories (otherwise known as the metabolic rate).

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We also know that smoking is a thermogenic agent, meaning that nicotine raises the rate of energy expenditure, metabolic rate.

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Some creatures move faster than others, some see farther, and some burn sugar at a higher metabolic rate than their rivals.

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Zaggora products made from a light form of neoprene and infused with a "special mix" of what Bell refers to as "cellulite technology" claim some miraculous results, including an increase energy expenditure, greater weight loss after 30 minutes of exercise than in regular work-out kit, and an increase in body temperature that leads to a raised metabolic rate.

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Some patients in the clinical trial suffered an increased heart rate and a condition called metabolic acidosis, which can lead to hyperventilation, fatigue and anorexia.

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