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  • Mixing it up keeps your metab firing because different muscles are being challenged which alters your heart rate which fires you … circular.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Burger lite. 2010

  • Not only his stomach but his new storage organ should be full of glucose and other readily metab-olized substances.

    Sentenced To Prism Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1985

  • Half a dozen slits on either side of his thorax, with lips to close them at need, let hydrogen diffuse inward, where his metab-olism employed it to obtain energy by reducing organic com-pounds whose ultimate source was vegetation.

    Three Worlds To Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

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