Tackle Your Stubborn Belly Fat With These 5 Foods

 

While going on a diet can help you lose weight and improve your wellbeing in a general way, there are some foods that specifically target your belly fat. So, which foods can help your tummy wellness?

 

1. Avocadoes: Before we get onto belly fat, there are numerous health and beauty benefits to eating avocadoes. Not only does this fruit have some pretty stellar anti-ageing properties; its anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties will keep you free of fungal and bacterial infections too. When it comes to your tummy area, the key factor in avocadoes is Lecithin. This important amino acid helps to balance your weight, improve your memory, protect you from liver diseases, prevent your chances of heart attacks and strokes and offer you overall health benefits. Avocadoes are absolutely packed with lecithin, so add them to your salad to help you shake off that stubborn belly fat!

 

2. Apples: If you struggle with belly fat, apples should be your go-to wonder fruits. According to a study carried out by Brazilian researchers, women who ate three or more apples a day lost more weight compared to those who didn’t. Why? The main reason why apples help to aid weight loss is that they contain an abundance of pectin. This natural compound not only helps you to lose weight but, as an added bonus, can reduce your risk of colon cancer. Moreover, apples contain a hearty amount of antioxidants and vitamin C, helping to keep your skin free of wrinkles. Finally, apples are high in a bunch of other healthy nutrients, including dietary fibre, flavanoids, phytosterol and beta-carotene.

 

3. Watermelons: If you’re over the age of 30 and have stubborn belly fat, it’s likely that you have a high amount of plaque deposits in your arteries. However, at the University of Kentucky, an interesting study revealed that watermelons had a unique effect on these deposits; lowering them by altering the blood lipids. The researchers found that drinking two glasses of watermelon juice every day for eight weeks reduces body weight without altering muscle mass, and this weight is lost mostly around the belly. Moreover, the good thing about watermelon is that it has a high content of water, a low amount of calories and helps you to feel full quickly, all of which create a perfect storm for weight loss.

 

4. Bananas: Just like apples, bananas have multiple benefits to your wellness. As well as offering you a high amount of dietary fibre, bananas give your body an instant jolt of energy, which is essential for helping you to carry out a regular workout routine. As we’ve already seen with the pectin content of apples, the pectin found in bananas helps you to lose weight and protect you against cancer. Bananas work to fill up your stomach with healthy fibre, improve your digestion and give you very few calories. Plus, bananas are just plain good for you, offering a rich supply of calcium, magnesium, Vitamins A, C, E, B6 and potassium.

 

5. Tomatoes: In your average large tomato, there are just 33 calories, which is a great start for any weight loss success. However, tomatoes also contain a compound called as 9-oxo-ODA that reduces lipids in your blood and helps to control your belly fat, as well as fighting all chronic diseases that are obesity related. Moreover, tomatoes contain a powerful antioxidant known as lycopene which helps to reduce your wrinkles, fight cancer and lower your cholesterol levels. Not only can you add tomatoes to your salad, you can also cook a tomato-based sauce for your pasta to enjoy the health benefits of this powerful compound.

 

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Is There a Way of Ridding Your Body of Belly Fat?

It seems too good to be true, but it seems that a new diet has been released that promises it’s possible to lose four to nine pounds of belly fat every week without cutting back on calories and without doing any exercise. Jorge Cruise claims that you’ll be able to eat everything you love, including pizza, cheeseburgers and chips, as long as you lower your intake of sugar and processed carbs – this, he claims, will help you to control your insulin levels, which lead to weight gain around the middle. This is in contrast to the trainer’s first book, The 3-hour Diet: How Low-carb Diets Make You Fat and Timing Makes You Thin, which claimed that the secret to weight loss was portion control and a calorie-in versus calories-out approach. If you want to lose weight, and maintain it more importantly, your calorie intake needs to be controlled and you need to keep a regular body of exercise going each week to keep the heart healthy, according to a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association.

 

The Belly Fat Cure consists of eating fats, vegetables and proteins with a small amount of sugar and complex carbohydrates. You need to avoid processed foods entirely though. You’re fine to eat dark chocolate, champagne, wine and beer, but cocktails and sweets are off the list. Alot of the book highlights the ‘belly bad’ meals which fall into the restaurant and fast food categories. There are various meal plans designed for different eating styles, such as meat eaters and carb lovers, so that you can find a plan that suits you. There is also a no excuses plan, which encompasses all the basics. This consists of three eggs and two slices of buttered toast for breakfast, a handful of walnuts for a snack, tuna salad and one pitta bread for lunch, one cup of cottage cheese with honey for an afternoon snack, and grilled chicken or steak with vegetables and brown rice for dinner. Dieters are also advised to drink eight to ten glasses of water a day, as fruit juices and milk are considered to be bad foods for the belly. The only fruits that are ok to eat on this diet are blackberries and blueberries, because they have a lower sugar content that most fruit. It’s met some harsh criticism, with many people claiming that it is simply a gimmick rather than a real cure.

On each day of the diet, dieters consume no more than 15 grams of sugar from six servings of ‘smart’ and fibre-rich carbs – you can calculate the sugar to carb value by comparing the grams of sugar to the number of servings of carbs you’re eating. The food labels will be able to provide this information for you. The theory behind this carb swap is that you get your insulin levels correctly balanced, to limit the risk of sugars turning to fat in the cells which leads to weight gain, wrinkles, lower energy levels and cellular inflammation. As with many fad diets, there is controversy over whether it is just a money-making scheme or whether it actually works for people. For many people, the concept of being able to eat foods which are normally off the menu seems too good to be true. As with any diet or lifestyle change, you should speak to your GP before embarking on a new diet plan to ensure that it is safe for you.

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