Welcome to the Get Fit Guys, quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Guy, and in today's episode I'm going to give you

seven surprising ways to boost your metabolism without exercising.

I recently read the results of a brand new study in the journal

obesity that shows eating slowly and chewing your food carefully actually increases what's

called your post-praniel, or your post-meal, energy expenditure, metabolism, and fat oxidation

in both men and women. In an even more surprising study, the same researchers found that chewing

gum post-brandially after a meal also resulted in an increase in something called

dietary-induced thermogenesis, which is basically how many calories your body naturally burns

while consuming the meal you've just eaten. Well, that's one reason why I personally

chew each bite of food when I'm eating 20 to 25 times, especially when I'm eating dense foods

like steaks or big salads. And two, I constantly chomp on gum, and I use natural gum without

lots of sugars or artificial sweeteners. I look for things like stevia or xylitol

as my flavors in gum. Well, in addition to chewing each bite of food carefully and chomping on

gum after a meal, what are some other ways besides exercise that you can boost your metabolism?

Well, I'm going to give you five more quick and dirty tips to boost your metabolism

while barely moving a muscle.

So here is number one. Consume minerals. Minerals initiate, regulate, and control vital bodily functions

like enzyme activity, digestion, cells, electrical impulse, and metabolism. For example, the mineral

copper reduces free radical damage and

enhances recovery from exercise. It helps maintain bone and connective tissue help, and it preserves

normal thyroid gland function. Copper also helps to develop the proteins and enzymes essential

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