
“In short, metabolism is a term for all the chemical processes in our body that control our balance of energy,” says Dr. Brian Quebbemann, a bariatric surgery specialist based in Newport Beach, California, and author of "World's Greatest Weight Loss: The Truth That Diet Gurus Don't Want You to Know." When you eat food, your digestive system breaks it down into various components, and those get converted to energy by the body's metabolic process. CLICK HERE TO READ ARTICLE!