Not exact matches
For all of you no breakfast people out there, you could be going ten to sixteen
hours without adding any
fuel to your system - enough time to put your body into starvation mode and slow down your
metabolism.
Cottage cheese and various fruit — Cottage cheese may not look appealing, but it tastes pretty darn nice, is high in protein, and when combined with fruit, makes for a pretty balanced and substantial snack, that will keep your
metabolism and muscles
fueled for
hours upon
hours.
When cells use MCTs instead of glucose for
fuel, a body's
metabolism is increased for adult to 24
hours, says Dr. Fife.
If exercising at a low intensity (or below 50 percent of max heart rate), you have enough stored fat to
fuel activity for
hours or even days as long as there is sufficient oxygen to allow fat
metabolism to occur.
The good news about aerobic
metabolism is that the supply of
fuel (body fat) is nearly endless, and you can exercise for many, many
hours using this energy system.
Many of our
metabolisms have been trained to run on dietary carbohydrate and glycogen as their primary
fuel sources, making the first few
hours to days of fasting a challenge.