Natural Fat Burning Foods. February 7, 2012.

What will you give me if I tell you that burning fat is the easiest thing in the world? And I am not kidding. By eating the right food items you can easily burn fat and reduce weight in a matter of a few months. How you ask? You will just need to change what you eat. Replace unhealthy toxic food items with healthy natural ones. In this article we are going to look at a free list of fat burning foods and how to intake them in the right manner.

Can Food Really Burn Fat?

The answer to this question is a disappointing ‘NO’. No food item can actually help you burn fat contrary to popular claims. Then why call them fat burning foods? This is because eating these food products will help your body get rid of fat deposits even if not so directly. Let us look at how this works.

How Do Natural Fat Burning Foods Work?

Before we proceed any further, let us find out how exactly fat burning foods work? To understand this, you need to understand why the body stores excess fat instead of flushing it out in the first place? The answer is that you never gave the body enough time to flush the fat out! The body requires time to detox. Yes, the fat stored is a form of toxin that needs to be flushed out but the body never gets enough time to detox. The body can detox only when the stomach is free from the process of digestion for quite a long time.

Does this mean that you should stop eating? Absolutely not. This means that you should eat foods that can be digested quickly so the body has time to start detoxifying. And that is exactly what fat reducing foods do – they are extremely easy to digest and at the same time they offer energy to the body. So what are these foods that burn fat? They definitely have to be natural because any processed food requires a lot of time to get digested. They also have to be raw as cooked food takes time to get digeted as well. In addition cooked food contains salt which in itself is a toxin. So any food that can help you burn fat has to be natural and raw. Plus it should give you enough energy to sustain.

So what are these foods? The best food nature can provide:  fruits and vegetables. Let’s look at foods that burn fat:

List of Best Fat Burning Foods

The following list of foods consist of fruit and vegetables that are easy to digest and do not product harmful toxins, starch or fat thereby giving the body ample time to start detoxifying the excess fat.

Raw Apples

This fruit contains the highest percentage of a soluble fiber, and is extremely easy to digest. Apples contain appox 14 grams of carbohydrate per serving and 1.4g of dietary fiber. Just like any other fruits they are devoid of starch and fat which are the main trouble makers

Bananas

Yes, that is right. Bananas are not fattening. In fact they contain a lot of carbohydrates that give ample energy to the body. Bananas can be fulfilling and most people have been known to live eating only bananas!

Tomatoes

This wonder vegetable is also known to be a good anti-cancer agent. Tomatoes should be eaten raw as part of daily salads. Tomato can be eaten along with other fruits. Make sure not to fry tomato as fried tomatoes become toxic

Dates

Dates are rich sources of carbohydrates and dietary fiber and can be digested easily by the body. Dates contain 18g carbohydrates, 1.6g dietary fiber and 16.0g natural sugar per every date (24 grams). Dates make great snacks.

Raw Carrots

This vegetable is used to fill your stomach so you would not eat anymore rather than anything more deep – some people consume a raw carrot immediately after a meal so there would be no space left in the stomach for the dessert. In this way the fattening dessert is replaced with the carrot which is definitely more healthy for the body. Include raw carrot, beetroot and cucumber in a salad and include this in your daily diet.

Raw Mangoes

Mangos are a complete food in themselves. Mangoes offer 28g carbohydrates per serving along with 3g dietary fiber and 24g natural sugar.

Raw Oranges

This fruit as well as the other citrus fruits are rich sources of Vitamin C which is essential for speed up the body’s metabolism. Oranges and vitamin C make an excellent combination against fat.

Spinach

Another one of the fat flushing foods, this vegetable is well known also for its capacity to combat anemia as well as an anti-cancer agent.

Vitamin C rich fat flushing foods

Other than the citrus fruits, there are many more fruits that are rich with this crucial vitamin. These too, could join the low fat food list given above – cabbage, watermelon, asparagus, blueberry, beet root, and the broccoli among others.

The foods that you have read about above are also called the negative calorie foods, implying that these fat burning fruits can actually burn the calories in the body by giving the body enough time to flush toxins. If you combine these foods with a simple yet regular exercising regime, you would definitely be able to loose weight and maintain it at the levels you are comfortable with it. So plan a diet of fat burning foods and get rid of fat the healty way without actually dieting.

Eating to Burn Fat

I am not asking you to completely switch over to eating fruits and raw vegetables. In fact, that won’t be a possible option for many of you who are addicted to salt, meat and cooked food. The simplest way is to start eating fruits for breakfast. Is that too much to ask for? The body is active in the morning and is ready to flush toxins. Feeding the body simple fruit rich diet can help the body concentrate on flushing toxins instead of reverting the attention back to digestion. If you plan on consuming these fruits as fruit juice then remember to not add sugar or water. Adding sugar will spoil the whole thing. You can also consider eating only fruits and raw veggies on weekends or at least one day a week. If you find the results effective, do it for 2 days a week and then 3 days. For most of us, a 1-day fruit-only diet combined with a fruit-only breakfast diet should do wonders.