"People tend to assume that if they eat as little as possible, they will naturally lose weight. That's not true!"

Much misinformation exists about diet, age in regards to resting metabolic rate, usually from the mass media and from ill informed individuals. Does your daily diet and age really affect my metabolism rate? Or would is it just another myth from mass media advertisers? To learn what is metabolism and what it constituent, read one of our earlier articles, entitled, "What is Metabolism and does Resistance Training accelerate it?".

What Effect Will Diet Have?

What you eat contain calories, it only depends on how much is your intake. To lose weight, an individual must burn more calories than he or she consumes, and to gain weight, an individual must eat more calories than he or she burns. It's a universal equation that applies to everyone and despite years of research, the treatment of obesity continues to revolve around the seemingly simple concept of balancing calorie expenditure with calorie intake (1).