7 Ways to boost your metabolism daily this spring

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Rev your energy and calorie-burn all day long

Metabolism influences your body's basic energy needs and helps speed up the process of burning calories.

After the age of 35, our metabolism slows down, so it's up to us to keep it going strongly.

Here are seven things you can do during the course of your day to help speed things up...

1. Start your day with a cup of green tea or black coffee

Green tea offers the benefits of caffeine and catechins – substances known to boost metabolism for a few hours.

Just one cup of coffee can rev up your metabolism by between eight and 11 per cent. Drinking black coffee (in moderation) is known to provide short-term metabolic rate increases.

Read on for six more daily metabolism-boosting tips...

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