Know how THESE regular habits could slow down your metabolism

Your eating habits, drinking habits and lifestyle patterns affect your metabolism. It is therefore important you keep a check on your eating, sleeping and lifestyle patterns to know what is really slowing down your metabolism process.
Drinking water

Not drinking enough is one of the worst things you could do to your body. When your body is well hydrated, it improves your metabolic process but if you don’t drink enough water, it might just slow down your metabolism.

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New Delhi: There could be several factors that might affect your metabolism. Your eating habits, drinking habits and lifestyle patterns affect your metabolism. It is therefore important you keep a check on your eating, sleeping and lifestyle patterns to know what is really slowing down your metabolism process.
These habits could be your regular habits that might turn out to be detrimental to your health. Here take a look at the lifestyle habits that slow down one’s metabolism process.
  1. Skipping your breakfast: This is your first meal of the day and provides the body with energy. When you miss breakfasts, your body slows down on metabolism and cannot produce enough energy that might be required for you to go through the day.
  2. Not drinking enough water: This is one of the worst things you could do to your body. When your body is well hydrated, it improves your metabolic process but if you don’t drink enough water, it might just slow down your metabolism.
  3. Not sleeping enough: When you don’t get proper sleep, your entire body feels tired and it doesn’t have the energy to go through the day properly. This then affects your metabolism as well.
  4. Less movement: We all go to offices and sit on those chairs for hours without making a single movement. This not just slows down our metabolism but also affects our entire health. You tend to gain weight and this might also give rise to other health issues such as diabetes or hypertension among many others.
  5. Too much alcohol or sugary drinks: Both of these are extremely detrimental to your health and they also slow down your metabolism process. Drinking too much of these could also cause diabetes or obesity or in severe cases, heart diseases and kidney diseases.
Disclaimer: Tips and suggestions mentioned in the article are for general information purposes only and should not be construed as professional medical advice. Always consult your doctor or a dietician before starting any fitness programme or making any changes to your diet.
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