Fat-burning foods already in your kitchen: From chili to mustard, how to turn 8 classic ingredients into bulge-beating superfoods

  • There are many foods that have a thermogenic effect on the body
  • This means they use more energy to ‘burn’ calories and thus burn more fat
  • Nutritionist May Simpkin reveals eight of these foods you probably already have 

By May Simpkin at The Daily Mail

You might be familiar with the notion that eating foods that are high in calories along with a lack of physical activity causes an imbalance in metabolism, which leads to obesity.

The tricky thing, for many of us, is getting the balance right and ensuring we maintain a healthy weight.

However, the metabolism is not always an easy thing to understand and differs from person-to-person, varying in efficiency and requiring differing amounts of energy to process the foods and drinks consumed.

Wouldn’t it be fabulous to be able to eat foods that can help you lose weight, simply by eating them? Although this doesn’t quite make sense on first reading, you may be surprised to know that there really are foods that can help you do just that.

Increasing capsaicin - as found in chili peppers - may stimulate thermogenesis in the body

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Increasing capsaicin – as found in chili peppers – may stimulate thermogenesis in the body

Research suggests that there are some foods that may help manage weight by boosting the metabolism, due to their thermogenic effect on the body – in other words, the amount of energy used and heat produced as your body processes this food.

All foods, when consumed, speed up the action of the muscles in the digestive tract, using up energy and producing heat in the process. This is known as thermogenesis.

However, certain foods use up more energy and create more heat as the body ‘burns’ calories. The harder the food is to digest, the more calories the body will have to burn to fully break it down, before it can absorb the nutrients from it.

Thermogenesis kicks in after every meal and the digestive process continue to burn calories many hours after a meal is eaten.

The thermogenic effect of food will depend upon the type of food and the amount of food consumed in the diet as a whole.

An effective weight loss programme can be modified to include some of these thermogenic foods to help you to achieve your goals, but it is important to remember that this effect will only be achieved as part of a… read more at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4279770/Top-8-fat-burning-foods-kitchen.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490