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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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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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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