What is Metabolism??? (confused)?

Question

Ok, I know it's in your body and something to do with fat or skinny but I don't know the details to it can someone tell me???

Answer 1

its how your body turns the food you eat into energy so you can run around and scream, "ahhhhhHHHHHH!!!"

Answer 2

Our muscles pull off fat molecles from its surrounding for oxidation to produce fuel that we can use to sustain ourselves in most ways. Metabolism is the rate that this process happens.

Answer 3

Its your body converting your food into either energy, fat, amino acids etc.

People with a high metabolism are skinnier because there fat is broken down faster and not stored.

edit: im trying to gain weight too, people think im way too skinny and i have an eating disorder when in reality i eat like theres no tomorrow. Maybe our thyroid gland is overactive since that controls the rate of our metabolism..

Answer 4

it's like a measurement about your health and body shape. =]

and there is a scale for that to wiegh how mush fat you have on your body. and how much to lose. NO JOKE!!

Answer 5

the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism by which its material substance is produced, maintained, and destroyed, and by which energy is made available.