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Flush the fat away, flatten your tummy and get leaner body by including this incredibly tasty drink in your diet routine. It will do  magic for you and you will look more attractive and satisfied than ever before.

Certain compounds in grapefruit do burn up stored body fat, and eating it regularly could promote eventual fat loss. The surest and healthiest way to lose weight is to eat less food than you burn off. A significant source of vitamin C, among other nutrients, grapefruit is a healthy addition to your arsenal against body fat.

According to a study published in the “Journal of Medicinal Food,” eating half a grapefruit before a meal three times a day is associated with significant weight loss. Groups of obese individuals were assigned to eat half a grapefruit, drink 8 ounces of grapefruit juice, take a grapefruit capsule or take a placebo capsule. The fresh grapefruit, grapefruit juice and grapefruit capsule groups reported greater weight loss after 12 weeks than the placebo group, suggesting that certain components of grapefruit facilitate weight loss and fat loss.

Polyphenols are a type of antioxidant found in many fruits and vegetables, including citrus fruits like grapefruit. According to a 2008 study published in “Phytomedicine,” a dry polyphenolic extract of grapefruit, orange and red orange is shown to have a lipolytic effect, breaking down stored fat. Obese individuals treated with the polyphenolic extract demonstrated a 5.5 % reduction in body fat after four weeks and a 15.5 % percent reduction after 12 weeks of daily supplementation.

Although cinnamon has dozens of health benefits, the main benefit that will help you to get leaner is through it’s strong effect on controlling blood sugar levels in your body.

In a study published in 2003 in the medical journal Diabetes Care, groups were split into people taking 1, 3, or 6 grams of cinnamon per day in capsule form (the equivalent of approx 1/4th to 1 teaspoon of cinnamon). The results of the study showed that all 3 amounts of cinnamon reduced fasting blood glucose levels by 18-29% after 40 days.

Cinnamon can also increase insulin sensitivity, which essentially means that it is helping your body to control blood sugar while simultaneously allowing your body to produce less insulin.

Including cinnamon into your diet on a regular basis will help you to control blood sugar and insulin response from your meals and thereby control your appetite and cravings throughout the day hence, helping you to lose body fat more effectively over time.

Mint-basil duo help you increase metabolic rate and help you prevent build up of toxins. They make digestion better, prevent constipation and help with flatulence.

This drink reduces your food cravings and gives you the feeling of satiety so that you don’t feel hungry all the time. It might be a little bit difficult the first 2 days to avoid eating in the evening, but don’t give up! Be persistent and you will get an amazing detox and fat burning effect.

Ingredients:

2 grapefruits

1 lemon

8 mint leaves

8 basil leaves

1/2 tsp. cinnamon

1 liter water

Instructions:

Squeeze 2 grapefruits and half a lemon and mix this with the chopped mint and basil. Let it stay for 30 minutes. Then add the water, cinnamon and slice the other half of the lemon. Stir well and keep it in the fridge before consuming it. Drink this during the evening period and make sure the last glass you consume 1 hour before going to bed if you want to get the best results. Drink this for 7 days in a row. If necessary repeat for 5-7 days more after making a 2 days break. The results are really incredible. The only think you should be aware of is that it is not allowed to eat or drink anything else during the evening period.

 

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The difference between subcutaneous fat and the more deadly “visceral fat”… Plus the simple steps to REMOVE this fat permanently
Although this picture depicts an overweight man, this article applies to dangerous types of fat inside the bodies of both men and women… and this discussion also applies even if you only have a slight amount of excess stomach fat.

Did you know that the vast majority of people in this day and age have excess abdominal fat?  It’s true — as much as 70% of the population in some “westernized” countries such as the US and Australia are now considered either overweight or obese.  The first thing that most people think of is that their extra abdominal fat is simply ugly, is covering up their abs from being visible, and makes them self conscious about showing off their body.

However, what most people don’t realize is that excess abdominal fat in particular, is not only ugly, but is also a dangerous risk factor to your health. Scientific research has clearly determined that although it is unhealthy in general to have excess body fat throughout your body, it is also particularly dangerous to have excess abdominal fat.

There are two types of fat that you have in your abdominal area. The first type that covers up your abs from being visible is called subcutaneous fat and lies directly beneath the skin and on top of the abdominal muscles.

The second type of fat that you have in your abdominal area is called visceral fat, and that lies deeper in the abdomen beneath your muscle and surrounding your organs. Visceral fat also plays a role in giving certain men that “beer belly” appearance where their abdomen protrudes excessively but at the same time, also feels sort of hard if you push on it.

Both subcutaneous fat and visceral fat in the abdominal area are serious health risk factors, but science has shown that having excessive visceral fat is even more dangerous than subcutaneous fat.  Both types of fat greatly increase your risk of developing heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, sleep apnea, various forms of cancer, and other degenerative diseases.

Part of the reason visceral fat is particularly dangerous is that studies show that it releases more inflammatory molecules into your system on a consistent basis.

One of the major reasons that some people accumulate more visceral fat than others can be from a high carbohydrate diet that leads to insulin resistance over time (years of bombarding your system with too much sugars and starches for your pancreas to properly handle the constant excess blood sugar) … and studies show that high fructose intake particularly from high-fructose corn syrup can be a major contributor to excess visceral fat.

So what gets rid of extra abdominal fat, including visceral fat?

Both your food intake as well as your training program are important if you are to get this right and the good news is that I’ve spent over a decade researching this topic, analyzing the science, and applying it “in the trenches” with myself as well as thousands of my clients from all over the world to see what works to really stimulate abdominal fat loss.

I’ve actually even seen a particular study that divided thousands of participants into a diet-only group and an exercise & diet combined group. While both groups in this study made good progress, the diet-only group lost significantly LESS abdominal fat than the diet & exercise combined group.

From my research, two of the most important aspects to getting rid of visceral fat are:

1. The use of high intensity forms of exercise and full-body resistance training.  Low intensity cardio exercise simply isn’t as effective for removing visceral fat in particular.  High intensity exercise such as interval training, sprints (bike sprints or running sprints), AND full-body weight training are very effective at helping to improve your body’s ability to manage glucose and increases insulin sensitivity, a crucial step in removing visceral fat.

These types of high intensity exercise routines are also very effective at increasing your fat-burning hormones and creating a hormonal environment conducive to burning off abdominal fat, including visceral fat.

2.  In addition, it’s vitally important to get blood sugar under control to help restore insulin sensitivity through the right nutrition.  This means greatly reducing sugars and refined starches in your diet (including fully eliminating any use of harmful high fructose corn syrup!), and focusing more of your diet on healthy fats (such as avocados, nuts, seeds, coconut fat, olive oil, grass-fed butter, free-range eggs, fatty fish and fish oils, etc), as well as increasing protein and fiber intake.  The standard diet recommended by the government, which contains an unnaturally high grain intake is NOT conducive to controlling blood sugar and reducing visceral fat!

Reducing grain-based foods in your diet and getting more of your carbs from veggies and high fiber fruits such as berries can go a long way to helping to solve this problem.

If you have done your due diligence, you are likely well aware that carbohydrates can be bad news for a fitness regimen. However, avoiding carbs completely does not automatically equate to fat loss. Of course, there can be many benefits to adopting a low-carb lifestyle, but never forget that unprocessed and fibrous carbohydrates can be an excellent source of energy for your body. As such, feel free to incorporate the right variety into your healthy lifestyle.

As always, however, knowledge is power. Beyond just what you are eating, you need to know the value (or detriment) inherent to how you are eating it. Think about what your current diet entails. What sorts of foods do you typically consume that are carbohydrates? How do you eat them? With what foods are they usually pair? You may be shocked to discover that something as simple as the dish you choose to eat alongside the carb of your choice can completely make or break your voyage to a fitter future.

There is just one simple rule that you can never forget when doing so. Never combine fats and carbohydrates. Limiting your fat consumption when eating carbs is absolutely critical. The way these two foods interact wreaks havoc on your body’s ability to burn fat and actually encourage it to do just the opposite.

When you eat fat, your body digests the food and releases fatty acids into the bloodstream. On the other hand, when you eat carbohydrates, your body digests that food and releases the storage hormone insulin into the bloodstream. This combination is exactly what you need to avoid. Fatty acids combined with insulin means your body will choose to start storing the fats. Insulin even activates fatty acid “transporters” in your body’s fat cells, which facilitates even more efficient fat storage.

Always avoid consuming large amounts of fatty acids and foods the will release a high level of insulin (such as all higher glycemic carbohydrates) into the body simultaneously. When you eat carbs, do not eat it with fats and vice versa. Best practices generally include limiting carb intake to less than 10 grams in a meal where you will be eating fat. Similarly, cap your fat consumption at 10 grams in a meal where you will be eating a large amount of fat. But just cutting out the dangers of eating carbs and fats by consuming them separately, you will optimized your body’s fat-blasting hormonal environment and being seeing much faster results.

 

By Josh Bezoni

To all my wonderful 5400 (and growing) subscribers… THANK YOU for a wonderful year.

Some have inquired about me since I have been quiet since August.

I appreciate that.

Truth be told, I just was working on OCR races (Spartan Races) and I have been working on a book.

Yes, I have a book.

It’s called Transparency. But I’ll get to this in a second.

I decided to take on the Spartan Trifecta. For those who are not aware of what this is, The Spartan Race is an obstacle course race that usually breaks down into 3 categories (The Beast: 13+ miles, The Super: 8+ miles, and The Sprint: 3+ miles) each of these have many different obstacles to conquer. I had never done a trifecta before and I’m not the type of person who stays in his comfort zone. As you can see “mission completed”.

Along the journey, I interacted with many different people from different walks of life. Each of them were there for different reasons, but one that was consistent “we’re bigger than any obstacle in front of us”. Some people trained for the races, and some just signed and ran the races with friends. Those that sign up and didn’t train paid for it later on the course.

Then it hit me, those that truly happy with life (in general) make it habit to be happy. They work toward happiness. I even had to look at me, and say “I’ve got some work to do”. That’s how “Transparency” came.

2016 will be about mental health and wellness. More people are just not happy. Not happy with life, jobs, etc… and it starts with you. You have to find your happiness, you have to define your PEACE…

So began the book. Transparency. 12 weeks to the “New” you. I have worked the steps, and I know it will help you in your life, love, and happiness.

2016… I look forward to giving you happiness in Transparency.

 

Coach…