We all know how much harder it is to lose weight as we grow older. Approaching the age of 30, most bodies begin depositing fat at genetically pre-determined locations. (You know where mine is. Where’s yours?)

For most people, their metabolism hits its highest point at age 27, according to Dr. George Blackburn, a professor at the Harvard Medical School. Your body’s metabolic rate declines as much as 12 percent between the ages of 27 and 47 unless you learn how to stoke it.

Once this slowdown begins, it has traditionally been almost impossible to reverse.... at least, until now. Anyone at any age can return to equilibrium if they follow the MELTDOWN! eating plan. Once that happens, you can turbocharge your metabolism, regardless of how many candles were on your last birthday cake.

The cornerstone of the MELTDOWN! plan is to raise (or lower) your basal (base) body metabolic rate. Metabolism is the biochemical process which burns fat, turning it into the energy the body needs to function properly. Scientifically, the body converts fat into adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the chemical energy the body needs for fuel. Your system stores any excess fat for future use as adipose tissue.

The goal of the MELTDOWN! eating plan is to make your metabolism as efficient as possible so you can burn off your unwanted fat stores — the stuff that makes your stomach hang over your belt or your jowls sag.

There are only two ways to remove fat from the body: burn it metabolically or surgically remove it through liposuction. Fat, unfortunately, is one of the few substances you can’t eliminate.

Your resting metabolic rate burns up to 65 percent of the fat your body consumes in any 24 hour period. Fat is being released into your bloodstream even at rest.

That means an average adult female, whose total energy needs equal about 2,000 calories a day, will use up to 1,400 calories maintaining normal basal metabolic activities. These include breathing, eating, sleeping, working, talking, digesting, rebuilding tissue, etc.

This means you are burning fat when you are at work, chained to your computer, as well as when you’re sweating in a strenuous aerobics class.

Since a large amount of your daily caloric intake is required to maintain these normal body processes, a slight increase or decrease in your metabolic rate can have a significant impact on your weight. A 10 percent reduction in the resting metabolic rate equals a negative energy expenditure of over 50,000 calories per year. That translates into a weight gain of over 14 pounds. (One pound generally equals 3,500 calories.)

Of course, if you raise the resting metabolic rate 10 percent, you can lose 14 pounds a year simply eating, sleeping, breathing, etc.

How do you raise your metabolism? Exercise is one option. Exercising three days a week for one hour each session can raise the body’s metabolism about 20 percent above normal for up to three hours. That’s hot enough to allow you to slim down some, but definitely not "hot" enough to melt down the massive amount of fat cells in the body’s genetic storage depots.

Scientists have discovered that a lack of a specific nutrient or an excess of another can reduce or accelerate the cell’s metabolic rate.

Eating "high octane" food will also turbo-charge the metabolism. Food is your body’s fuel. Every car has a different fuel requirement; a race car uses different fuel than a Ford pickup.

You can change your car’s performance by adding higher octane fuel. The same is true with food. The proper food combinations can raise (or lower) the metabolism 30 percent above normal for up to 10 hours at a stretch. That means eating breakfast (of the biochemically proper foods, of course) will burn more fat than exercising — even though you sit at your desk all day. And that’s why if you eat the right stuff before bedtime, you can burn fat while you sleep.

Once I started eating properly, I received the results I wanted because, for the first time in 40 years, the fire was hot enough, long enough to eradicate my unsightly thighs.

Like your fingerprints, your metabolism is unique to you. You can verify this observation by looking around. People become overweight when their bodies deposit excess fat in specific storage depots. Some people have pear shapes, putting their unnecessary fat in their hips and thighs, a problem that plagued me. Others deposit their fat centrally in the stomach region and torso. Some favor the jowls, others the triceps area of the arms. Each person has a special, genetically predetermined place for stockpiling those gooey globules.

Several years ago doctors in Vermont conducted an experiment, feeding non-obese volunteers the same number of calories each day for almost a year. The calorie count was so high the researchers expected the volunteers to really tip the Toledos at the final weigh-in.

The physicians were surprised to find that everyone did not gain the same number of pounds, even though they ate the same number of calories. Some gained more weight than others. Some gained their weight faster than others. Why? Because each person’s individual metabolic rate was different.

What factors affect your metabolism? A host of factors can turn your metabolic thermostat up or down. Neurological responses and endocrine activity can change the rate. Almost every body function is controlled by hormones released from the endocrine glands. In addition to telling your body to be happy or sad, hormones also tell your body to be fat or thin. Hormones regulate your metabolic rate by determining how you burn and store fat.

Specific foods, vitamins and minerals can do the same thing. The discussion that follows is designed to help you understand how these factors work together to influence your metabolic efficiency, which, in turn, affects your weight loss or gain.

What makes MELTDOWN! so revolutionary is that by simply changing your eating habits, you can raise (or lower) your metabolism, allowing you to burn fat at Mach speeds 24 hours a day, even while you sleep.

Raising (or lowering) your metabolism is the ONLY way to lose weight permanently. That is the sole goal of MELTDOWN!

But first, you must conquer the Big Six, the nutrients that can build a metabolic roadblock to keep you fat forever.

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