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Cheri Calcagno:
The way to eat to increase your metabolism is to eat every three to four hours- a lot of people don't know that.

Wellness coach, Cheri Calcagno, author of the book, Weight Whys, says that pattern of eating every three to four hours must begin with breakfast.

When we hook somebody up to a machine in the lab to study what their metabolism is, you can see a drastic difference between somebody who doesn't eat breakfast versus somebody who does. Because we've starved our body all night, basically, when we're sleeping, we come out of that fast and expect ourselves to perform but we're not giving ourselves any fuel- so that really does slow our metabolism down.

So, we need to eat more frequently and we need to eat breakfast.

It goes against what people's common sense might be. Because common sense to a dieter, typically is?, I need to eat less so that I can lose weight. But we have to look at our body as a machine and understand that, "Hey, I've fasted all night, my body needs energy now, even if it's just half a banana and a piece of whole wheat toast." That's going to help to break up that fast and increase the metabolism. There's just no debating that because we can see the scientific evidence to back that up.

At somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.