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I received a magazine in the mail a few weeks ago called Your diet from the publishers of People magazine. I'm not sure why I received it but it has some interesting articles in it. Here is an excerpt from one on Managing Your Metabolism How to eat more and weigh less (that last part is what caught my attention).

"The less you eat, the more weight you lose, right? Not always. The truth is, our metabolism - the rate at which our bodies use calories - increases after we eat and nose-dives when we don't."

And one on The Value of Exercise: "You can readily boost your metabolism by adding muscle and losing fat...One pound of fat burns about two calories per day, whereas one pound of muscle burns as many as 50 calories per day."