Alright Ladies... Foods that help fight belly fat!
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I just read this article and thought I would share it! Enjoy!
Belly Fat-Fighting Foods
1. Avocados
Merely half of one avocado contains 10 grams of healthy mono-saturated fats, which stop the blood sugar spikes that tell your body to store fat around your midsection.
Not only do healthy fats in avocado help thwart belly bloat, they also help our bodies better absorb carotenoids, cancer-fighting compounds found in colorful fruits and veggies like tomatoes, carrots, spinach and winter squash. In fact, people who ate salads with avocado had 15 times higher absorption of carotenoids, a study from The Ohio State University at Columbus found.
2. Bananas
The fruit packs 422 milligrams of potassium, a mineral that can help limit the amount of belly swelling sodium in your body.
3. Yogurt
A cup encourages the growth of good bacteria in your gut, throwing out other bugs that can cause bloating.
Creamy Greek yogurt is yummy, but it's also much more than that: Its combo of carbs and protein help stabilize insulin, a hormone that tells your body to store calories as fat when levels get too high.
4. Berries
Antioxidants can improve blood flow, delivering more oxygen to muscles -- so ab revealing cardio is easier. Have some yogurt and berries before your workout to get those muscles ready for action.
5. Chocolate Skim Milk
A glass teams carbohydrates with protein to promote muscle building. Drink POST workout to speed recovery. Plus, you are getting that calcium to make your bones stronger. Chocolate milk is not just for kids!
6. Green Tea
Three cups daily may rev up your metabolism and burn 30 calories, a study in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise shows. The compound ECGC in the tea makes it easier to burn fat.
7. Citrus
Supermarket shocker: Vitamin C in colorful produce, like oranges and red peppers can help you zap up to 30 percent more fat during exercise, research from Arizona State University at Mesa suggests.
8. Whole Grains
Carb lovers, Rejoice! The filling fiber in foods like oatmeal, brown rice, and bulgur aids in keeping your body's insulin levels low. Researchers speculate this may shrink fat cells. Your body absorbs and burns these more slowly for longer-lasting energy than the refined carbs in white bread and rice.
Stealthy stomach slimmers
Discreet downsizers:
While you're working out: On the elliptical or treadmill, keep your back straight, head forward and abs tight. Perfect posture will target your tummy as you sizzle calories.
When you're in the car: Tighten and release abs repeatedly at red lights. It's the ab equivalent of Kegels: a little move that yields results almost without your noticing.
When you're at your desk: Give belly pooch the pink slip with pilates breathing: Gently suck in your gut as if you were buttoning a tight pair of jeans. Then breathe without allowing your abs to relax. Do this for 30 seconds. Repeat five times, advises Michele Olson, Ph.D., professor of exercise science at Auburn University.
When you're walking Fido: Brace against leash tugging and banish your belly: Keeping torso upright with shoulders back, engage abs for five strides; relax them for five strides. Repeat until you're back at your front door, says Torri Shack, a trainer in Los Angeles. Check out your (bow) wow abs!
When you're in bed: Count on compliments, not sheep, with this mattress move: Place palms right below belly button. Exhale and allow stomach to expand. Then inhale, pulling belly button toward spine, drawing abdomen toward the box spring. Hold for 10 seconds. Repeat four times.
Five Saboteurs of Sexy Stomachs:
Don't make nice. These are your ab-versaries!:
Booze: Feel free to raise a glass-but only one. Women who had one drink a day or less had a smaller belly than both teetotalers and occasional drinkers who had two or more alcoholic beverages in a sitting, a study in the Journal of Nutrition reports. We'll toast to that!
Time in front of the TV: We love a DVR-athon, too, but people who tuned in for two or more hours daily had weaker back and ab muscles (by up to 10 percent) than those who viewed less than two hours, regardless of their overall activity level, researchers from the University of Oulu note. An hour of tube time is fine, especially if it motivates you to hit the gym. Worthy of watching: Smallville's Tom "Clark Kent" Welling and Justin "Green Arrow" Hartley, whose super fly abs sure make us want to breathe heavier.
Stressing out:: Feeling frazzled and frantic? Increased levels of the hormone cortisol, a result of chronic worry, lead to excess stomach fat, research shows. To de-stress and weigh much less, learn to breathe. Slowly inhale through your nose, counting to four. Then exhale from your mouth for a count of eight. Repeat until refreshed.
That darned bread basket!: Those fluffy white rolls? They're your flat-ab foe! When facing a bread basket, check its contents before digging in. If you see whole grains, go for it-in fact, feel free to enjoy 3 ounces a day. (One slice of whole-wheat bread or 1/2 cup of cooked brown rice are each 1 ounce.) Dieters who did so lost more stomach fat than those who merely cut calories and ate refined grains, a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reveals.
Late-night munchies: We hate to be a Debbie Downer, so think of us as Debbie Downsizer: Pass up p.m. snacks. Your body may not burn nighttime nibbles as efficiently as it does those you eat during the day, a study of high-fat diets in the journal Obesity finds. Declare "last call" two hours before bed. "If you're really hungry, have a 150-calorie snack," says self contributing expert Janis Jibrin, R.D. If not, sip tea, cut the lights and bid farewell to the fridge until morning.
By: CBSNews
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500165_162-7254362.html
Belly Fat-Fighting Foods
1. Avocados
Merely half of one avocado contains 10 grams of healthy mono-saturated fats, which stop the blood sugar spikes that tell your body to store fat around your midsection.
Not only do healthy fats in avocado help thwart belly bloat, they also help our bodies better absorb carotenoids, cancer-fighting compounds found in colorful fruits and veggies like tomatoes, carrots, spinach and winter squash. In fact, people who ate salads with avocado had 15 times higher absorption of carotenoids, a study from The Ohio State University at Columbus found.
2. Bananas
The fruit packs 422 milligrams of potassium, a mineral that can help limit the amount of belly swelling sodium in your body.
3. Yogurt
A cup encourages the growth of good bacteria in your gut, throwing out other bugs that can cause bloating.
Creamy Greek yogurt is yummy, but it's also much more than that: Its combo of carbs and protein help stabilize insulin, a hormone that tells your body to store calories as fat when levels get too high.
4. Berries
Antioxidants can improve blood flow, delivering more oxygen to muscles -- so ab revealing cardio is easier. Have some yogurt and berries before your workout to get those muscles ready for action.
5. Chocolate Skim Milk
A glass teams carbohydrates with protein to promote muscle building. Drink POST workout to speed recovery. Plus, you are getting that calcium to make your bones stronger. Chocolate milk is not just for kids!
6. Green Tea
Three cups daily may rev up your metabolism and burn 30 calories, a study in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise shows. The compound ECGC in the tea makes it easier to burn fat.
7. Citrus
Supermarket shocker: Vitamin C in colorful produce, like oranges and red peppers can help you zap up to 30 percent more fat during exercise, research from Arizona State University at Mesa suggests.
8. Whole Grains
Carb lovers, Rejoice! The filling fiber in foods like oatmeal, brown rice, and bulgur aids in keeping your body's insulin levels low. Researchers speculate this may shrink fat cells. Your body absorbs and burns these more slowly for longer-lasting energy than the refined carbs in white bread and rice.
Stealthy stomach slimmers
Discreet downsizers:
While you're working out: On the elliptical or treadmill, keep your back straight, head forward and abs tight. Perfect posture will target your tummy as you sizzle calories.
When you're in the car: Tighten and release abs repeatedly at red lights. It's the ab equivalent of Kegels: a little move that yields results almost without your noticing.
When you're at your desk: Give belly pooch the pink slip with pilates breathing: Gently suck in your gut as if you were buttoning a tight pair of jeans. Then breathe without allowing your abs to relax. Do this for 30 seconds. Repeat five times, advises Michele Olson, Ph.D., professor of exercise science at Auburn University.
When you're walking Fido: Brace against leash tugging and banish your belly: Keeping torso upright with shoulders back, engage abs for five strides; relax them for five strides. Repeat until you're back at your front door, says Torri Shack, a trainer in Los Angeles. Check out your (bow) wow abs!
When you're in bed: Count on compliments, not sheep, with this mattress move: Place palms right below belly button. Exhale and allow stomach to expand. Then inhale, pulling belly button toward spine, drawing abdomen toward the box spring. Hold for 10 seconds. Repeat four times.
Five Saboteurs of Sexy Stomachs:
Don't make nice. These are your ab-versaries!:
Booze: Feel free to raise a glass-but only one. Women who had one drink a day or less had a smaller belly than both teetotalers and occasional drinkers who had two or more alcoholic beverages in a sitting, a study in the Journal of Nutrition reports. We'll toast to that!
Time in front of the TV: We love a DVR-athon, too, but people who tuned in for two or more hours daily had weaker back and ab muscles (by up to 10 percent) than those who viewed less than two hours, regardless of their overall activity level, researchers from the University of Oulu note. An hour of tube time is fine, especially if it motivates you to hit the gym. Worthy of watching: Smallville's Tom "Clark Kent" Welling and Justin "Green Arrow" Hartley, whose super fly abs sure make us want to breathe heavier.
Stressing out:: Feeling frazzled and frantic? Increased levels of the hormone cortisol, a result of chronic worry, lead to excess stomach fat, research shows. To de-stress and weigh much less, learn to breathe. Slowly inhale through your nose, counting to four. Then exhale from your mouth for a count of eight. Repeat until refreshed.
That darned bread basket!: Those fluffy white rolls? They're your flat-ab foe! When facing a bread basket, check its contents before digging in. If you see whole grains, go for it-in fact, feel free to enjoy 3 ounces a day. (One slice of whole-wheat bread or 1/2 cup of cooked brown rice are each 1 ounce.) Dieters who did so lost more stomach fat than those who merely cut calories and ate refined grains, a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reveals.
Late-night munchies: We hate to be a Debbie Downer, so think of us as Debbie Downsizer: Pass up p.m. snacks. Your body may not burn nighttime nibbles as efficiently as it does those you eat during the day, a study of high-fat diets in the journal Obesity finds. Declare "last call" two hours before bed. "If you're really hungry, have a 150-calorie snack," says self contributing expert Janis Jibrin, R.D. If not, sip tea, cut the lights and bid farewell to the fridge until morning.
By: CBSNews
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500165_162-7254362.html
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While the foods listed sound yummy, they have no special belly-shrinking powers. Neither does sucking in your gut a few times day. No need for all these rules and weird rituals. Just eat and exercise.0
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While the foods listed sound yummy, they have no special belly-shrinking powers. Neither does sucking in your gut a few times day. No need for all these rules and weird rituals. Just eat and exercise.
QFT. A moderate calorie deficit and regular exercise are what will give you results. Please don't make it complicated.0 -
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While the foods listed sound yummy, they have no special belly-shrinking powers. Neither does sucking in your gut a few times day. No need for all these rules and weird rituals. Just eat and exercise.
Did you even read the article??? It was just a helpful list of facts and study results that aaahhheeemmm....help you lose fat and give the reasons why. Of course these things could be incorparated into a healthy diet and lifestyle. I read this article prior to it being posting and found it interesting. If it's not for you, why bother disagreeing with proven studies on some forum board cuz apparently what modern medicine and science says isn't is good as your opinion.
Thanks for sharing the article, worth the read.0 -
While the foods listed sound yummy, they have no special belly-shrinking powers. Neither does sucking in your gut a few times day. No need for all these rules and weird rituals. Just eat and exercise.
Did you even read the article??? It was just a helpful list of facts and study results that aaahhheeemmm....help you lose fat and give the reasons why. Of course these things could be incorparated into a healthy diet and lifestyle. I read this article prior to it being posting and found it interesting. If it's not for you, why bother disagreeing with proven studies on some forum board cuz apparently what modern medicine and science says isn't is good as your opinion.
Thanks for sharing the article, worth the read.
I read the article, and based on my knowledge of nutrition, its bull****.0 -
While the foods listed sound yummy, they have no special belly-shrinking powers. Neither does sucking in your gut a few times day. No need for all these rules and weird rituals. Just eat and exercise.
Did you even read the article??? It was just a helpful list of facts and study results that aaahhheeemmm....help you lose fat and give the reasons why. Of course these things could be incorparated into a healthy diet and lifestyle. I read this article prior to it being posting and found it interesting. If it's not for you, why bother disagreeing with proven studies on some forum board cuz apparently what modern medicine and science says isn't is good as your opinion.
Thanks for sharing the article, worth the read.
telling people that certain foods are healthy and should be incorporated into your diet is one thing, falsely saying that they "burn belly fat" is another thing.0 -
Did you even read the article??? It was just a helpful list of facts and study results that aaahhheeemmm....help you lose fat and give the reasons why. Of course these things could be incorparated into a healthy diet and lifestyle. I read this article prior to it being posting and found it interesting. If it's not for you, why bother disagreeing with proven studies on some forum board cuz apparently what modern medicine and science says isn't is good as your opinion.
Thanks for sharing the article, worth the read.
I see no proven studies. Those don't exist, especially in the realm of nutrition research. I'm not even sure I know what "proven studies" means.
Sure, the foods listed are probably healthy and sound yummy, but that doesn't mean eating some list of foods and sucking in your belly a few times a day is really "fighting belly fat".0 -
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The amount of ways this article refers to "belly fat" is offensive to me.
Like others have mentioned, this is pop-science bull. They may be right with a few reducing bloating, but that's hardly the same thing as burning fat. The response is the same every time this article is reposted on MFP.0 -
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Thanks for sharing! I just read an article very similar to this on SELF magazine's website, but you added additional info.
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Sorry but where in the article is the reference to modern medicine and science?While the foods listed sound yummy, they have no special belly-shrinking powers. Neither does sucking in your gut a few times day. No need for all these rules and weird rituals. Just eat and exercise.
Did you even read the article??? It was just a helpful list of facts and study results that aaahhheeemmm....help you lose fat and give the reasons why. Of course these things could be incorparated into a healthy diet and lifestyle. I read this article prior to it being posting and found it interesting. If it's not for you, why bother disagreeing with proven studies on some forum board cuz apparently what modern medicine and science says isn't is good as your opinion.
Thanks for sharing the article, worth the read.
Where is the reference to the "study results"?
That article is from the CBS website, a news website.0 -
NOT THE BANANAS!!! :sad:2. Bananas0 -
Love the info. Food chemistry and what it does to our bodies is so important to know. And now I have a good reason to eat avocado without worrying about the fat! I need stronger abs because of a bad back, so I am going to try out the exercises too. They are so simple and easy to do. Thanks for posting!0
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funny, 7 out of 8 of the "belly burning foods" are items that I either avoid or restrict due to their levels of natural sugars or high carbs!
(I am not saying they're unhealthy, I just thought, how ironic that I've been able to lose so much belly fat without eating hardly any of them)0 -
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Stress hormones contribute to abdominal fat.
I'd suggest reducing those by limiting your consumption of fitness magazines, beauty magazines, and b.s. news websites so as to not end up worrying about something that doesn't actually matter.
Sure hold in your gut every once in a while. That's not a bad idea. But what reduces abdominal fat is the same thing that reduces fat stores anywhere: calorie deficit.
Eat good food that you like in moderation and move your body. Eat less than you burn, you're great. No need to stress yourself out with this silliness and make it harder on yourself.0 -
I personally think modern day wheat is terrible for our belly. It is not the wheat from the days of "our daily bread" or even the wheat our great-grandmothers used. Today's wheat is so engineered that it barely resembles food. It is toxic to our bodies, or at least my body.
Someone earlier mentioned stress hormones deposit belly fat. This is true. And eating genetically-modified modern day wheat causes stress (micro-inflammation) on our bodies and thus the depositing of belly fat.
Mind you I am not talking about gluten intolerance ( celiacs) I am talking about fake food being harmful.0 -
Stress hormones contribute to abdominal fat.
I'd suggest reducing those by limiting your consumption of fitness magazines, beauty magazines, and b.s. news websites so as to not end up worrying about something that doesn't actually matter.
Sure hold in your gut every once in a while. That's not a bad idea. But what reduces abdominal fat is the same thing that reduces fat stores anywhere: calorie deficit.
Eat good food that you like in moderation and move your body. Eat less than you burn, you're great. No need to stress yourself out with this silliness and make it harder on yourself.
This needs to be said a million times.0 -
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