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8 Foods that Fight Fat
Tired of that spare tire? Sick of your love handles? You can increase your body’s fat-burning power by eating more foods that strengthen your liver (your body’s main fat-metabolizing organ) to burn fat better. The result? A leaner you! There are many great liver boosting foods, but here are some of my favorites:
Leafy Greens: Spinach, spring mix, mustard greens, and other dark leafy greens are good sources of fibre and powerhouses of nutrition. Research demonstrates that their high concentration of vitamins and antioxidants helps prevent hunger while protecting you from heart disease, cancer, cataracts, and memory loss.
Beans and Legumes: Legumes are the best source of fiber of any foods. They help to stabilize blood sugar while keeping you regular. They are also high in potassium, a critical mineral that reduces dehydration and the risk of high blood pressure and stroke.
Garlic and Onions: This dynamic duo of foods contains phytochemicals that break down fatty deposits in the body, while also breaking down cholesterol; killing viruses, bacteria, and fungi; and protecting against heart disease. With a little help from garlic and onions, you can burn fat while warding off illness.
Cayenne: This hot spice lessens the risk of excess insulin in the body by speeding metabolism and lowering blood glucose (sugar) levels, before the excess insulin can result in fat stores. Spice up your next meal with cayenne and lessen those love handles.
Turmeric: The popular spice used primarily in Indian cooking is one of the highest known sources of beta carotene, the antioxidant that helps protect the liver from free radical damage. Turmeric also helps strengthen your liver while helping your body metabolize fats by decreasing the fat storage rate in liver cells. Add a teaspoon of turmeric into your next curry dish to help your body fight fat.
Cinnamon: Researchers at the United States Department of Agriculture showed that a quarter to one teaspoon of cinnamon with food helps metabolize sugar up to twenty times better than food not eaten with cinnamon. Excess sugar in the blood can lead to fat storage. Before you sip that chai tea latte or eat your oatmeal, sprinkle on the cinnamon.
Flax Seeds and Flax Seed Oil: These seeds and oil attract oil-soluble toxins that become lodged in the fatty tissues of the body. Once attracted, they help to escort fat-soluble toxins out. That spells fewer fat stores and a trimmer you.
Adapted from The 4-Week Ultimate Body Detox Plan by Michelle Schoffro Cook.
Michelle Schoffro Cook, DNM, DAc, ROHP, RNCP is a best-selling and six-time book author and doctor of natural medicine, whose works include: The Life Force Diet, The Ultimate pH Solution, The 4-Week Ultimate Body Detox Plan. Learn more at: www.TheLifeForceDiet.com.
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add your comment »Thanks for reminding me about some of these, I have many in the cupboard and will try to incorporate them a bit more over the next few days
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Great tips for health and for beauty as well! Thanks Michelle.
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Many thanks Michelle for this very useful post which I am taking the liberty of reproducing with your ex-post facto concurrence, which you may kindly agree to, at some social networking sites with some additions of my own on the Indian food habits.
Indian food has all that has been recommended here in all meals in a middle class household but the poor ones do not get the right kind of oils. Our fats, for those who can afford, seem mostly to come from dairy products and unhealthy oils which negates or undoes the benefits of the other healthy food ingredients.
That is the reason, in my opinion, why we in South Asia tend to be more vulnerable to many ailments and see the food wastes going to our waists (and quite often the bottoms). Some others amongst males tend to get breasts that many women would have been envious of but for the accompanying waistlines.
Thanks again.
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Thank U Michelle, great article :-) xx
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Great contribution, among the best of the most recent several hundred. REALLY great. Thank you.
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thank You much!! I have noted it all down and will add the parts of this I did not know, to My diet, as My income allows! I am grateful fot the added knowledge .....sincerely, Cathi
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I found out about cinnamon & turmeric on Dr Mercola's site a couple of years ago so this is another confirmation of their healthy properties.I love natural solutions to health problems & how to avoid them.
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Love this article. I had cinnamon in my green tea this morning.
Mark Lowe
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Oops -- typo. ;) "completly" = "completely"
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Stef Burger, your comment is so typical of the bigotry that exists toward people who find it hard to lose weight. You apparently don't realize that many overweight people lead normal, active lives and that many of them monitor every morsel they eat (sometimes eating under 1200 calories), but still -- no significant results. I've known co-workers who ate junk half the day, and who seemed to eat nearly constantly, but who remained thin. Meanwhile, others turned down all the goodies at break time, munched on their salad and apple at lunch time, and stayed overweight. Obviously there's something genetic going on here -- it's not as simple as people like you seem to believe. I'm not saying there aren't overweight people who do eat too much, and eat junk, and get virtually no exercise. I'm simply saying it's time for the assumptions to stop. Skinny people are just as likely to pig out on junk food as some fat people are, but they don't get abusive comments because of it. Anti-overweight bigotry is one of the last completly socially acceptable types of bigotry. Open your mind. Scientists don't even fully know why some people find it so much harder to lose weight -- don't assume that you know more than they do.
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