calorie-burning

Your age. As you get older, the amount of muscle tends to decrease and fat accounts for more of your weight, slowing down calorie burning.

Another potential strategy might be to transplant brown fat cells into an overweight person to turn on the calorie-burning process.

Your calorie-burning rate immediately plunges to about one per minute, a third of what it would be if you got up and walked.

It's also a metabolism booster, speeding up your calorie-burning furnace for a couple of hours after eating.

Much of the recent research focus has been on the intense hunt for obesity genes involved in appetite or calorie burning.

Take a closer look at your daily routine, and you'll find plenty of opportunities for easy calorie-burning activities--no gym required.

Just be sure that you focus on calorie-burning exercises, rather than sit-ups or crunches.

From magical calorie burning pills to fat melting vaccinations, dieters are loosing everything but the fat.

"Ursolic acid ups muscle and brown fat, which boosts calorie burning, " says lead researcher Christopher Adams, MD.

"Enviga increases calorie burning, " declared Rhona Applebaum, Coca-Cola's chief scientist, when the new drink was unveiled in late 2006.

On a typical workday, I met 80% of my calorie-burning goal and 71% of my miles-traveled goal.

Your best bet for creating a mean calorie-burning machine is to build muscle and stay active.

March in place. Pump your arms to increase your calorie-burning power.

Loss of muscle weight lowers our metabolism, which in turn lowers our calorie burning potential, and in turn our eating potential.

This is twice the calorie burning workout of volleyball or tennis.