DID YOU KNOW: Calcium helps your body metabolize fat more efficiently by increasing the rate at which it gets rid of fat as waste (yes, that kind). Read a bit about the study that showed this here.
This means that milk after your pizza (or donut, or fries, or hamburger, etc.) can help mitigate the damage caused by those foods!!!
Natalie Note: I wonder if ice cream counts as the calcium-rich food or the fatty food? Since I went for McDonald's reduced fat ice cream after eating crinkle-cut fries and a piece of buffalo pizza (Seriously, just one! I'm very proud of this - only 225 calories) during the Cowboys game yesterday, I'd like to think I put this theory to work.
Keep reading the Women's Health "article" for even more tips of increasing the rate you metabolize foods!
This one was also pretty eye-opening to me: "Knocking back the equivalent of just two mixed drinks (or two glasses of wine or two bottles of beer) puts the brakes on fat burning by a whopping 73 percent." WHOA. Good thing I just stuck to coffee (with milk - more calcium!) during the game!
I'm also going to add green tea to my afternoon regimen. This will be nice as the weather gets colder. Right now I have a box of Chai tea in my study carrel at school, but it can easily be replaced with green tea. This is just one benefit to drinking green tea, by the way. It also has amazing powers to strengthen your immune system - something we can all use as we head into the winter season!
Yummm...green tea...the trick is to take the tea bag out before it gets bitter.
ReplyDeleteI have read that women who eat more yogurt tend to weigh less...so the calcium thing makes sense. Plus, yogurt is very good for your all over health (tummy, urinary tract, etc).