4 Veggies That Destroy Stomach Fat (how this certain class of veggies detoxifies excess stress hormones)
4 Unique Veggies That Fight Abdominal Fat?
A surprising way that a few specific vegetables can actually stimulate the burning of abdominal fat…
By Nick Garcia, Holistic Nutritionist and Certified Nutrition Specialist
I bet you haven’t heard of the specific class of vegetables that contain very unique phytonutrients that actually help to fight against stubborn belly fat.
Let me explain what these unique vegetables are and why they help to burn stomach fat…
Chemicals and toxins that force your body to hold onto belly fat
Something you may have never heard about is that certain toxins in our food supply and our environment, such as pesticides, herbicides, and estrogen-mimicking foods from air, pollution, cleaners, shampoos, foods, water bottles, etc…can disrupt your hormones and make your body store excess abdominal fat.
One specific toxin is called endotoxin and its actually intestinal bacteria. Under normal circumstances the liver works to keep endotoxin from entering circulation and estrogen from being retained by the cells. In malnutrition, hypothyroidism, protein deficiency and stress the liver allows estrogen to pass through without being completely inactivated.
Endotoxin excites your cells, causing them to inflame, store estrogen, and slow your thyroid.
Another chemical commonly found in our food supply and environment are xenoestrogens, chemicals that you are exposed to (and are hard to avoid in the modern world) that have an estrogenic effect in your body. Excess exposure to these can cause hormone balance disruptions for both men and women.
These estrogenic chemicals that we are exposed to on a daily basis can stimulate your body to store belly fat, along with many other problems (including diabetes and metabolic syndrome risks in the long term).
So here’s where this specific class of vegetables comes into action…
One of those cool “hacks” that I teach my clients that hire me for nutrition coaching is the use of root vegetables to help fight against stomach fat.
Root vegetables such as carrots, turmeric, beets, bamboo shoots, garlic, and parsnips contain very specific and important microorganisms and phytochemicals to help fight against these endotoxins and other estrogenic compounds…
Roots contain chemicals that inhibit microorganisms provide a high concentration of nutrients along with low concentrations of toxic anti-metabolic substances.
These fibers prevent the reabsorption of estrogen in the intestine, and can shift the balance away from cortisol and estrogen, toward progesterone and thyroid, in just a few days of regular use.
And by fighting against these fat-storing estrogenic chemicals and toxins, this is just one more step in helping you win the war against stubborn belly fat!
So, your mom wasn’t wrong when she advised you to “eat your carrots!”
I’ve really enjoyed adding bamboo shoots to curries, eating carrot salad as a side dish, and adding a couple of cloves of garlic to just about everything!
But BEWARE…
Although this class of vegetables may be a super-healthy choice for achieving your lean, attractive, and energetic body…I’ve discovered that there are at least 5 common habits that most people falsely think are “healthy”, but they actually KILL your metabolism and pack on belly fat.
Discover what these metabolism-killers are on the next page:
These 5 “healthy” habits HARM your metabolism & pack on belly flab (avoid these!)
