Other forms: metabolisms
Metabolism is the speed at which your body burns food into energy. A fast metabolism, slow metabolism, boost your metabolism.
Most of it goes on doing nothing — keeping a body alive at rest accounts for the large majority of the energy used, and exercise is a smaller share than people expect. Differences between individuals are real but much smaller than diet advertising suggests.
1nounmetabolismThe rate at which the body turns food into energy.
“As you get older, your metabolism slows down, and it becomes easier to gain weight.”
metabolism is a bodily process.
Greek metabole means change, from metaballein, to change — meta, beyond, plus ballein, to throw.
From μετᾰβολή + -ism. From μεταβολή + -ism, from μεταβάλλω + -η.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA