Monday, November 10, 2008

Eating Healthy Foods to Lose Weight (1)

You don’t need to starve or go on crash diet to lose weight. You don’t even need to skip any meal. To know the right food and drink to eat is all you need. There are foods that helps in burning fats in the human body. They are usually called fat burning foods. These foods burn more fat 5than the calorie content of the food itself. There are five groups of foods which burn more calories than you consume. Let these five groups always be part of your meal.

1.Citrus fruits: These are fruits rich in vitamin c. Examples lime, orange, grapefruit, lemon and tangerine. Vitamin c in these fruits dilutes the fat, makes is less effective and helps in releasing the fat from the body.

2. Apples: Remember the old saying, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. It also keeps fats away. Pectin in apples restricts the cells o absorb fat and encourage water absorption from the food. This helps in releasing the fat deposits from the body

3.Chillies: Red chili and foods containing chilies contain capsaicin that helps in increasing the body metabolism. Garlic contains the compound allicin which has antibacterial effects and helps reduce cholesterol and unhealthy fats.

4. Vegetable: Vegetable consumption is good for health. Some vegetables like carrot, water melon, broccoli and asparagus help to reduce cholesterol and unhealthy fats in the human body. Remember you get the best value from vegetables when it is half-coked.

5. Roots: When we talk of roots here, we mean beetroot, potato(sweet and Irish). These contain substances which helps to reduce fats in the human body.

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