Metabolism

Metabolism Metabolism 3 Introduction Metabolism is fundamentally the amount of energy burned by a person’s body when understanding any type of activity. Each person’s metabolism will be different as each person’s body Composition is different. Metabolism, wither it be high or low, is determined in part by the relationship of fat content to muscle content in any one person. A person with a higher percentage of muscle and a lower percentage of fat will burn more energy or have a higher metabolism then a person that is less muscular with a higher percentage of fat. However, body composition is not the only variable that can determine an Individuals metabolic rate (What is Metabolism and Why is it Important' [WMWI], 2002, p.1 of 3). Some other factors, such as smoking, exercise, and diet will combine to have an effect on how each person’s metabolism works. These variables do however have their own their own individual affects on the body and thus can singularly change a person’s metabolism. I will focus on the smoking factor, along with exercise and diet, and how each of these can alter a person’s energy output to determine a higher or lower metabolism. Smoking Effects It is common knowledge in today’s professional and metabolism, body, fat, smoking, person, higher, exercise, content, person’s, rate, lower, weight, energy, people, metabolic, one, muscle, gain, 2002, quit, less, hsam, health, each, composition, calories, 1998-2001, variables, thus, own, output, opposite, levels, individual, high