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Too much belly fat can lead to issues such as chronic inflammation, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease and more. The good news is that there are healthy ways to help your body lose that fat. Learn about how exercise can help in part 1 of this episode.
With the rate at which diabetes, obesity and other metabolic disorders are on the rise in this country, it’s no wonder that people are seeking out different ways to improve upon weight management, especially belly fat.
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Grains of Paradise is from the ginger family. It comes from West Africa. It’s a plant called Aframomum melegueta. The first studies done using this plant in rats are showing that it increases energy levels in the body and induces thermogenesis, which is the burning of fat, so it’s a safe way of helping someone to burn fat.
People have used high doses of caffeine and even dangerous stimulants to burn fat. Naturally, if you get some exercise and you eat a healthy diet, you’re going to burn some fat. But some people need additional help. This Aframomum melegueta has proven that it really can improve fat burning and it does it in a very safe way.
Why fat is dangerous
Baby fat is called brown fat. This is the fat you burn for energy. The fat on your belly is white fat and it’s visceral adipose tissue, which is very dangerous. When you have too much belly fat, it invades your organs. So far, there’s evidence that it can even get into your kidneys, but it’s well-known that it gets into the liver. In some people, this can make them feel inflamed or a little weaker, but in other people, this can lead to liver cancer and liver failure. That same fat can leech into your heart and clog the arteries in your heart. White fat is the fat you have on your belly and it’s not metabolically inactive because it doesn’t give you energy per se since it’s hard to burn. What it does give you is inflammation and that inflammation is connected to things like the onset of diabetes.
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Here’s a study from The British Journal of Nutrition in 2013. In this study, they were looking at brown fat and thermogenesis. The researchers gave chubby men either Grains of Paradise or placebo. They found out that two hours after ingesting Grains of Paradise, it absolutely increased the level of brown fat and energy expenditure, in other words leading to thermogenesis. They said, “These results indicate that oral ingestion of Grains of Paradise extract increases whole-body energy expenditure, burning fat through the use of brown adipose tissue in human subjects.” That’s converting white fat to brown fat.
Another study done by the School of Nursing and Nutrition at Tenshi College, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine and a couple of other academic research institutions in Japan looked at the impacts of Grains of Paradise on both men and women. The researchers gave the Grains of Paradise to men and women for four weeks. They found that even in thinner people, the Grains of Paradise was preventing the buildup of fat in their bodies.
These studies show that Grains of Paradise is a safe way to improve energy-burning without using a stimulant because stimulants can raise your blood pressure. In fact, if you use enough stimulants, it’ll make you hyper, it’ll raise your blood pressure and it can even trigger a stroke.
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Did you know that during the fall and winter the average American gains a minimum of 5 pounds? Here’s how to fend off that weight gain.
One of the most challenging things that people can experience when they are trying to lose weight is maintaining that actual weight loss. The good news is that there are a few different nutrients that can help optimize and support your weight loss goals, including 5-HTP and Grains of Paradise.
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By now you have probably heard about all of the wonders of Apple Cider Vinegar. Today, I want to discuss some detailed science behind it, so you can really understand its benefits and why Apple Cider Vinegar could be extremely beneficial to incorporate into your daily routine.
The History of Apple Cider Vinegar
We can go all the way back to Hypocrites when it comes to Apple Cider Vinegar and its history. Vinegar was considered a medicinal discovery that have numerous purposes. Now, the word ‘vinegar’ is French and means ‘sour wine’. It can be made from almost any fermentable carbohydrate source.
When offered in a liquid form, you will want to utilize a form with “The Mother”. This yields a high amount of yeast and acedic acid bacteria. It can be extremely beneficial for our immune system. Keep in mind that a good 70% of the immune system is located within the intestines. The vinegar itself helps those healthy bacteria, offering them a feeding source that can help to optimize our overall immune system. Apples, before the fermentation process, already possess all of these wonderful antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. By the vinegar being sourced from an apple, it is going to offer all of these benefits and properties, as well.†
Apple Cider Vinegar Benefits
Supplementation with Apple cider vinegar has been shown in studies to promote thermogenesis, or natural fat burning. It has also been studied in the support of cardiovascular health. It has a unique ability to hone in on oxidative stress and inflammation.†
In one study, researchers were looking at the impact Apple Cider Vinegar could have on high glucose and high insulin levels. These are people who had metabolic syndrome. The researchers had the participants eat certain foods and then they incorporated in Apple cider vinegar. What they found was a normalization in a satiety; for those who were more prone to having those food cravings in the middle of the afternoon, after using the Apple Cider Vinegar, they had the benefit of balancing their blood glucose and had a lessened effect of having these hunger episodes.†
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A study that was published in the Journal of Medicinal Foods discussed metabolic syndrome and how this has serious consequences, especially on the cardiovascular system, high blood pressure and the impact of elevated cholesterol. Dietary supplementation with specifically studied antioxidants can be extremely beneficial. In this study, researchers wanted to see if a daily dosage of Apple Cider Vinegar would indeed impact the cardiovascular risk factors that are associated with metabolic syndrome – total cholesterol, triglyceride levels, LDL cholesterol, VLDL cholesterol. After six weeks, the Apple Cider Vinegar helped to normalize these biochemical markers. They also found that the metabolic changes were really quite astonishing.
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