What Types Of Food Help To Burn Body Fat

Through this article we will look at the various types of foods that are readily available and which can help you burn body fat. It should be remembered that there are a wide variety of foods that burn fat and including them in any healthy eating plan will help you achieve your goals of losing that additional weight.

The first foods we are going to look at are breakfast foods such as oatmeal, whole grain cereal and skimmed milk. Oatmeal is a great food for burning fat as it contains a good source of vitamins, minerals and fibers which help with the fat burning issues.

Another great way of burning fat is by eating spicy foods which contain peppers. There is a component in peppers known as capsicum which induces the body to produce more stress hormones and these in turn increase a person's metabolic rate. By increasing a person's metabolic rate it helps them to burn more calories.

Also increase your intake of fruits such as oranges, grapefruit, tangerines, lemons and limes as they contain high concentrations of Vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Vitamin C helps to reduce the effectiveness of fat. It has often been found that it can liquefy or dilute fat in the body. So because it is being diluted the fat becomes less effective and so becomes much easier to flush out of our systems. Plus Vitamin C is also great for working on cholesterol deposits as it helps to burn it and this makes it more difficult for cholesterol deposits to build up in the blood vessels. Also including citrus fruits to a diet (on a daily basis) will help to increase your metabolic rate and thus increase our ability to get rid of that fat. Plus you will find that it helps to control your cholesterol levels as well.

Another food that is ideal for helping to burn fat is soybeans. This food contains lecithin which shields the cells in the body from accumulating more fat. But not only it also helps to break down fatty deposits in the body as well. However, if you really want to ensure that you lose fat then you should eat these at least 3 times each week. This will then help the body in its ability to get rid of the fat. You will find that many health food stores hold stocks of soybeans.

Last but not least, good solid organic protein foods such as beef, lamb, chicken, fresh seafoods, fermented milk products, etc will also increase the speed at which the body's fat burning process takes place.

By all means, avoiding junk foods like donuts, sweet cakes, ice cream, soda, or anything that contains sugar and its related derivatives will greatly remove the blockage to success as far as burning body fat is concerned.

Although we have only mentioned a few above, there are a wide variety of foods that burn fat which are readily available not just from your local health store but your supermarket as well.

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Dr. Kang-pang Chan is a board-certified naturopathic physican by the American Naturopathic Medical Association and now based in Hong Kong.