Your metabolism is the process that is involves the conversion of molecules such as sugars into energy and also the rate at which this energy is consumed. In order to understand how food is used to run your metabolism, it is important to know a few things. Your metabolism is a combination of physical and chemical processes called anabolism and catabolism. Anabolism is the constructive or building phase of metabolism in which body cells synthesize muscle and protoplasm for growth and repair. This is a series of articles that will dwell on various aspects of your metabolism. I will cover a few topics that are important in understanding metabolism, your health and ways to help reduce your weight with understanding a little about your metabolic processes.

When alcoholic drinks are consumed they pass through the stomach into the small intestine where the ethanol (the key ingredient of alcohol) is rapidly absorbed and distributed throughout the body. The ethanol enters body tissues in proportion to their water content. Therefore, more ethanol is found in the blood and the brain than in muscle or fat tissue. Ethanol is greatly diluted by body fluids. A 1-ounce shot of 100-proof whiskey, which contains 0.5 fluid ounces of ethanol (or 15 mL), is diluted 5000-fold and in a 150-pound human, producing a 0.02% blood alcohol concentration.

Ethanol is toxic, and the body begins to dispose of it immediately upon its consumption. The liver processes over 90% of it. In the liver, the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme converts ethanol into acetaldehyde, which is, toxic.

Since 2005 Dove has a campaign running that's titled "Campaign for real beauty". All over the world commercials were broadcasted and initiatives are still being launched to change the stereotype view we have on beauty. Several media channels are used to reach this goal: advertising, interactive billboards, panel discussions, and a Self-Esteem Fund.

This campaign has the right intention to work on something that's genuinly a problem in our western modern society. Many women do infact suffer from the social pressure of media, which idealizes the concept of beauty over and over again. On the catwalk you see girls so skinny it's unhealthy, billboards project women enhanced with special technology to look more stunning and soap shows will rarely star girls with body fat percentages over 14%.