Foods that boost metabolism
Avocados:
The essential fats found in avocados actually rev up metabolic rate, speeding fat burning. Avocados are also the primari food source of a vital liver-boosting antioxidant called glutathione, and it’s the liver that controls how fast fat is burnt in your body.
Breakfast cereals:
Our bodies have to work hard to break down fibre. Every gram of fibre eaten takes 7 calories to process, so eating more high-fibre foods like breakfast cereals aids weight loss.
Chilli Pepper:
Chilli causes the release of the hormone adrenalin, which increases metabolic rate by roughly 25 per cent. Chilli is also an appetite suppressant, helping you feel fuller after each meal.
Dried fruit:
Dried fruit is high in iron, which is essential in metabolic terms, When your iron levels are low your whole body slows down, including the rate of which you burn calories. Iron is also responsible for retaining adequate blood oxygen levels and just as fire can’t burn without oxygen , neither can fat.
Grapefruit:
Grapefruit lower levels of the fat storage hormone insulin, helping promote fat burning. Having half a grapefruit or a glasses of grapefruit juice before meal caused volunteers to loose 4-5 kg in three months, without changing any other part of their diet.
March 19 2008 09:33 am | Diet and New and food and low fat and weight
March 19th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Hey, really nice info there! I know eating oatmeals and cereals is good for breakfast, but never knew why
June 30th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Good think I love avacodos… but everyone is always saying how fattening they are… but I eat them anyways.
I even recently planted an avacodo tree… although I’m not sure if I will ever get any fruit from it or not.