People often complain that diet food tastes too plain and is like eating cardboard. It doesn’t have to be. You can add herbs and spices that will make your food taste delicious and almost decadent. That’s just one way herbs and spices help with weight loss. They are nutrient-dense and often contain phytochemicals that boost your metabolism or improve your potential to lose weight in other ways.
Nothing smells more like the holidays than cinnamon does.
Cinnamon has a multitude of health benefits. One of which is balancing blood sugar levels. It helps by curbing cravings and keeping you feeling fuller. Preventing an excess flow of insulin can also help prevent insulin resistance. Insulin resistance can cause the body to convert excess sugar into fat because the cells don’t open in response to the insulin to uptake the sugar. Insulin resistance can lead to obesity, diabetes, and difficulty losing weight.
If you like it hot, adding cayenne pepper to your diet could boost your weight loss.
Cayenne pepper contains capsaicin, which causes it to heat your insides. The more a pepper has, the hotter it is. It’s in all types of peppers. Green bell peppers even have it, just not very much. It stimulates the nervous system to increase your body temperature by raising your metabolism and burning more calories. It also makes you feel full quicker, so you won’t eat as much.
Turmeric is an anti-inflammatory that helps with weight loss.
Turmeric creates a golden yellow color for your food. It contains curcumin, which is an anti-inflammatory and antioxidant. It helps reduce the risk of heart attack and improve brain function by boosting the brain-derived neurotrophic factor. Recent studies show curcumin also helps reduce belly fat and weight loss by suppressing the growth of fat tissue. Make sure you add black pepper to improve how well the turmeric works.
- Fennel seeds—saunfs—reduce fat storage by improving the body’s ability to absorb other nutrients. The bulb and seeds contain fiber to make you feel full. Consuming the saunfs also boosts metabolism, so you burn more calories.
- Carvacrol in oregano is a phytochemical that improves weight loss efforts. It suppresses the gene that causes the body to create new fat cells. It also prevents inflammation that can lead to obesity.
- The most dangerous and difficult to lose is belly—visceral—fat. Black cardamon has been shown to reduce that fat. Some animal studies show it can reduce total body fat. It helps control blood sugar and appetite.
- Garlic not only keeps vampires away, but it also burns fat. It boosts your metabolism, causes your body to break down fat, and reduces your appetite. It has a wealth of other health benefits, such as lowering blood pressure.
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