5 Unique Vegetables and Cinnamon The Miracle Spice That Help 'Burn' Belly Fat
There is a specific class of vegetables that contain very specific phytonutrients that actually help to fight against stubborn belly fat.
Infact, these vegetables can actually stimulate the burning of abdominal fat... Let me explain what these unique vegetables are and why they help to burn stomach fat.
Chemicals That Force Your Body to Hold onto Belly Fat
Something you may have never heard about is that certain chemicals in our food supply and our environment, such as pesticides, herbicides, and certain petrochemicals from air and water pollution, household cleaners, cosmetics, etc can react with your body and make your body store excess abdominal fat.
These chemicals are known as xenoestrogens. Excess exposure to these can cause hormone balance disruptions for both men and women. So these can wreak havoc in the body for both guys and gals.
Vegetables to Fight Against Stomach Fat
These estrogenic chemicals that we are exposed to on a daily basis can stimulate your body to store belly fat, along with many other problems (including cancer risks in the long term). So here's where this specific class of vegetables comes in handy...
One of those cool tricks that I teach my clients that hire me for nutritional counseling is the use of cruciferous vegetables to help fight against stomach fat.
Vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, kale and cabbage contain very specific and unique phytonutrients such as indole-3-carbinol (I3C) that help to fight against these estrogenic compounds...
And by fighting against these belly fat stimulating estrogenic chemicals, this is one more step in helping you to win the battle against abdominal fat!
I've really learned to like brussels sprouts in the last year too... Melt a little grass-fed cheese on them and some garlic and they're great!
The Miracle 'Fat Burning Spice'
This super-spice that I'm going to mention is one of the most overlooked, but healthiest spices in the world.
You might even call it a 'fat burning spice'... in a roundabout way. And yes, it can actually help you win the battle against belly fat if you use it daily... Here are some other benefits of this miracle spice:
- controls blood sugar levels
- helps maintain insulin sensitivity
- a VERY powerful antioxidant
- may have antibacterial and antifungal properties
- and dozens of other benefits
So what is this miracle spice that beats belly fat?.. It's good old tasty Cinnamon! Although cinnamon does NOT directly increase fat burning (such as by increasing metabolic rate, etc), it CAN actually help you to burn off abdominal fat and get leaner in an indirect way.
Here's how... Although cinnamon has dozens of health benefits, the main benefit that will help you to get leaner is through it's strong effect on controlling blood sugar levels in your body.
In a study published in 2003 in the medical journal Diabetes Care, groups were split into people taking 1, 3, or 6 grams of cinnamon per day in capsule form (the equivalent of approx 1/4th to 1 teaspoon of cinnamon).
The results of the study showed that all 3 amounts of cinnamon reduced fasting blood glucose levels by 18-29% after 40 days.
Cinnamon can also increase insulin sensitivity, which essentially means that it is helping your body to control blood sugar while simultaneously allowing your body to produce less insulin. As you know, chronically high insulin levels can make your body pack on the blubber.
How to Harness Cinnamon to Lose Stubborn Belly Fat
One possible way to benefit from cinnamon to lose more fat is to use cinnamon daily in your meals when you can, such as in yogurt or cottage cheese, in smoothies, oatmeal, or anything else you can think of where it would go well.
Also, you could use a cinnamon capsule before each of your meals.
This could help to control blood sugar and insulin response from your meals and thereby control your appetite and cravings throughout the day... hence, helping you to lose body fat more effectively over time.
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