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Do I Really Burn Calories While Sitting Around?

Exercise helps you tone your body and lose weight.  It also helps to raise your metabolism and endorphin levels, and makes you feel better in general... so when you're feeling down, frumpy, or just bored- go exercise.

Metabolism 

When you exercise, it makes your basal metabolic rate go up. 

 

Metabolism-

  • The rate that your body changes the calories you eat into fuel and energy for your body 

Your basal metabolic rate is a measure of the rate at which a person's body "burns" energy (in the form of calories) while resting.  This means that if you have a higher BMR (basal metabolic rate), then even when you are sitting, or sleeping, your body is still “burning” off calories.  (Ho, and Dowshen.) 

 

 

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Endorphins 

Exercise raises the level of endorphins in your body, and gives you a natural high.

Endorphins-

  • A group of substances formed within the body that naturally relieve pain
  • They have a similar chemical structure to morphine
  • Helps to relieve stress
  • Puts you in a better mood
  • They are released after an orgasm or laughter

 How they affect your body

  • Better mood
  • Can help depression

(Alice.)

 

Endorphines- The natural high

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Alice.  "Orgasms and endorphins." Go Ask Alice! 12 May 2005. 14 Apr. 2007 http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/0483.html. 

Ho, Wayne, and Steven Dowshen. "Metabolism." Kids Health for Parents. Dec. 2004. 15 Apr. 2007 http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/medical/body_basics/ metabolism.html.