Eat to Beat Your Diet: Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism, and Live Longer

Apples also contain a hefty amount (4–5 grams) of dietary fiber that feeds the gut microbiome.

On the contrary, eating modest amounts of fruit actually decreases weight gain and combats obesity.

Another brown fat–activating food is green tea.

Resveratrol is famously found in red wine, but it is also present in blueberries, cranberries, grapes, and even peanuts.

Chili pepper activates your brown fat through your nervous system.

Everyone has brown fat. It is a hidden asset, standing by and waiting for orders to turn on thermogenesis and burn away excess fat to streamline your metabolism.

Shedding fat helps you reset your metabolism and reclaim your health.

After age sixty, human metabolism does begin to decline, but only at a very slow rate: 0.7 percent per year.

This is the “adult phase” of metabolism, and it is rock stable from age twenty to sixty.