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Sunday, July 26, 2009

3 Tips For a Healthy Diet and Faster Weight Loss

By Francis Mack

If losing weight is your goal, your diet is the first thing you need to address. Exercise is certainly important also, but when it comes down to losing weight, diet is crucial. I hope this article will provide some useful tips and information on how you can make some healthy changes in your everyday diet.

1. Make sure that you include "healthy fats" in your diet, whenever you can. This helps to maintain the correct hormone levels the body needs, both for burning fat and for building muscle. They also help to keep your appetite under control.

You may be wondering where you can get all these "healthy fats". Well, seeds, raw nuts and avocados are good sources, as are the yolks of organic eggs. Coconut oil contains medium chain triglycerides, a great source of healthy fats. Extra virgin olive oil has the highest level of antioxidants, and grass-fed meat has "conjugated linoleic acid", which helps to build muscle as well as burn fat.

You could try this tip " have a handful of raw nuts (walnuts, pecans or almonds are all very good choices) about a half-hour before meals, 3 times a day. They are great for helping to suppress your appetite, and also to give your body protein, some fiber and of course, healthy fat. You dont need to eat a lot of nuts " they are high in nutrients.

2. With each of your meals, try to include a high-protein item. I like to use a grass-fed dairy product, a grass-fed meat product, or high-protein beans or nuts. This helps to control your intake of calories and takes the edge off your appetite.

When you get these proteins, and you are working out regularly, your body will pack on lean muscle mass. And your metabolism will be able to run faster which will result in getting fat burned off quicker.

3. Eating a lot of protein with your meals means that you are actually helping your body to control both blood sugar and insulin levels. This is as a result of the protein helping to slow down breakdown of the ingested carbohydrates. While I don't favour low-carb diets, I will say that the reason so many people struggle with losing weight is because of high intakes of both processed carbohydrates and refined sugar.

Although fruits contain sugars also, they are fine because the fiber within fruit helps to slow down the blood sugar response. But fruit juice should be avoided, because it has been stripped of fiber by the processing of the juice.

When people reduce their grain intake (bread,pasta,cereals etc), it usually follows that they start losing fat. If you can reduce your consumption of grains, and switch to fruit and vegetables as much as possible, you will find that losing weight has become a whole lot easier for you.

So if you go ahead and follow these 3 steps to a healthier diet, you should see changes before long - a leaner body, and higher levels of energy. - 17273

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