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Build more muscles. According to Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN, the more muscles you have, the higher your metabolism.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/health/2008/03/27/gupta.bellies.dementia.cnn?iref=videosearch

Here’s the catch though. To build muscles, you need to grow muscles as in muscle hyperatrophy. If you are constantly lifting the same weight, that is endurance training, which means you are just building more mitrochonrial (power houses) to utilize calories. To build muscles, you need your actin and myosin involved interdigitally and that means gradual weight increase.

Both are important to a healthy lifestyle and opting one over the other is not ideal.