Four Fat Burning Foods
Are you more interested in losing weight or getting rid of your chubby belly? I think most of you reading this would opt for both but if you were hard pressed to choose just one it would probably be the latter. Body fat is that tissue that hides those well defined muscles that are lurking underneath. You can either burn body fat or store it. The goal of course would be to burn more body fat than you store and keep it off.
It’s tough to burn fat these days when you’re bombarded with billboards such as these on your way to and from work “44 ounce soda, 99 cents” or “Any size soda, one dollar.” The product that retailers want you to over consume they under price. These and other types of foods and beverages are what helps lead to obesity and excess body fat.
Today I’m going to reverse the trend and give you four items that you can pick up at any local grocery store that will help to burn more fat and achieve the body you want. These fat burning foods won’t do everything for you, but they can definitely help you along the way.
1. Coffee (Caffeine) – Our first caffeine is coffee which is consumed by more than 80% of the population, drinking on average 3-6 cups per day. Although coffee is enormously popular for its ability to increase alertness studies have also shown that it has calorie-burning properties. One cup of coffee has been show to increase the metabolic rate as much as 4% for a little over 2 hours. Overtime this small increase can lead to small drops in overall body weight.
2. Hot Pepper – Have you ever had beads of sweat congregating around your forehead after eating hot red peppers? Well, you’ve just experienced the calorie burning effect of hot peppers. This is a process called thermogenesis where the body releases calories in the form of heat. Of course, once these calories are released there is no chance of them every being stored in your body as fat.
3. Cinnamon – I love the taste of cinnamon and to learn that it has fat burning properties is a plus. Cinnamon and rich carbohydrate diets go hand in hand. Cinnamon helps reduce the blood glucose levels, which help keep your insulin in check. A spike in your insulin level increases fat storage.
4. Green Tea – The fat burning abilities of green tea is mainly because of its high caffeine content. Not only does green tea burn calories but many of the calories they burn are known to be fat calories. Having a cup of green tea extract 3-4 times a day will increase your calorie burning rate by as much as 3% or higher which will help you to burn more calories.
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