What is metabolic rate? Is is defined as the energy expended by a person, usually expressed in units of energy per unit body mass, per unit time.
Mr Tips read somewhere regarding several factors affecting metabolic rate:
1 . Muscular exertion during or just before measurement
2 . Recent ingestion of food
3 . High or low environment temperature
4 . Height, weight and surface area
5 . Sex
6 . Age
7 . Growth
8 . Reproduction
9 . Lactation
1 0 . Emotional state
11. Body temperature
1 2 . Circulating level of thyroid hormones
1 3 . Circulating epinephrine and norepinephrine
There is more…….
Some holistic practitioners thought that metabolic rate is subject to one metabolic type e.g; protein type, vegetable type and both. Someone with protein type of metabolism will have problem digesting/assimilating foods suitable for vegetable type and vice versa.
