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Monday, July 27, 2009

3 Healthy Diet Tips That Help You Lose Weight Faster

By Frank Gerrard

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. Be sure to include healthy fats in your meals whenever possible. This is an important factor in maintaining your bodys required hormone levels both for fat burning and also for muscle building. Having adequate healthy fats in your diet also ensures that your appetite is kept under control.

The best sources of these healthy fats are raw nuts, seeds, organic egg yolks, avocados, extra virgin olive oil (this has the highest level of antioxidants), coconut oil (contain medium chain triglycerides, which are a great source of healthy saturated fats), and meat which comes from grass-fed animals (this contains conjugated linoleic acid,, which helps burn fat and build muscle).

Here's a good tip - try a handful of raw nuts, such as almonds or pecans, about 30 minutes before your main meals. This will help to quell the appetite, and give you protein, fiber and "healthy fat". Just a handful will do the trick - nuts are very nutrient-intensive.

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.

Getting proteins like these means that, if you are working out regularly, the body puts on more lean muscle rather than fat. And your metabolism will be able to run faster, thus better able to burn off fat.

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.

It's true that you have sugar in fruits also, but that is OK because they have fiber also, and fiber will slow down the response of the blood sugar. Avoid fruit juice though - it does not have this fiber, as the processing of the juice strips it out.

After people start reducing their grain intake (by reducing their consumption of bread, pasta, cereals, bagels etc) it usually follows that they start losing fat. So if you want to see results, switch from grain to fruit and vegetables as much as possible. Losing weight could 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. - 17268

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