Monday, March 4, 2013

Food that helps burn more calories

There are certain foods that speed up metabolism and burn calories. For example:

1.Milk, cereal.
Secret ingredients: calcium, complex carbohydrates and fiber.
Complex carbohydrates and fiber speed up the metabolism, because after eating they maintain low insulin levels. That's good, because high levels of insulin sends signal to your bodyl to start to store fat.
Calcium in milk also speeds up the metabolism. Research at the University of Tennessee found that people who keep a diet and consume between 1200 and 1300mg calcium a day lost nearly twice as much weight than those who entered less calcium.


2.Chili pepperoni.
Secret Ingredient: Capsaicine - substance in pepperoni which gives bitter taste.
Hot pepperoni make the heart beat faster. Research done at the end of the 80s has shown that eating a pungent spicy meal speeds up metabolism by 25%. More research however found that men who consumed coffee and meals containing red angrily pepperoni burned almost 1000 calories more than normal.


3.Green tea, coffee.
Secret ingredients: caffeine and substance EGCG (Epigallocatechin Gallate), which is found in green tea.
Caffeine speeds up the heart rate, the faster your heart beats, the more calories you burn. EGCG works similarly. This substance helps the brain and nervous system to run faster and thus you burn more calories. Research shows that the combination of caffeine and 90mg EGCG, consumed three times a day helps you burn an extra 30 calories and while idle.


4.Thin and fat-free pork, chicken, beef and turkey meat.
Secret Ingredient: protein.
The body requires more energy to process meat protein than it needs for carbohydrates and fats. This means that the more protein you consume, the more your body works, so in the process you consume more calories.
Research done in Arizona, shows that people who keep a diet rich in protein burn twice as many calories hours after eating, than people who keep a diet rich in carbohydrates.


5.Salmon, tuna, sardines.
Secret ingredient: omega-3 fatty acids.
Omega-3 fatty acids affect the levels of the hormone leptine in the body. Low levels of leptine accelerates the metabolism and you quickly burn calories. The best way to reduce the level of leptine is to eat fish.

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