Eating vegetables has been found to be the most effective way to lose weight in record time. Today, you will be learning about five of the top fat burning vegetables you can start adding to your meal every day to start your goal of managing your weight and living a healthy life.
1. Tomatoes
Tomatoes are sweet, juicy, delicious and fat free. We all know that eating tomatoes is good for the body. However, many people do not know what makes eating tomatoes a healthy choice.
Tomatoes is a good source of Vitamin A, and C. It has a low calorie, cholesterol, sodium and saturated fat, all these factors are good for weight tomatoesloss. Additionally, because tomatoes have a high water content, it makes it possible for one to get full eating it. Eating tomatoes helps in protection against high blood pressure, strokes, and heart disease.
Other Health Benefits of Tomatoes are:
  • Tomatoes are a natural cancer fighter.
  • Tomatoes build strong bones.The vitamin K and calcium in tomatoes are both very good for strengthening and repairing bones.
  • Tomatoes can keep your blood sugar in balance. Tomatoes are a very good source of chromium, which helps to regulate blood sugar.
  • Tomatoes can improve your vision. The vitamin A that tomatoes provide can improve vision and help prevent night blindness
2. Egg Plant aka Garden Egg
eggplantMany people I know do not like eating Garden Egg. However, I love eating this plant a lot. While many fruits and vegetables plays a vital role in healthy living, Egg plant appears to have a special role it plays especially in the treatment and prevention of some serious health conditions.
In this article, we will discuss just 3 ways that the egg plant has proven useful.
In Weight Loss
Egg plants contain a lot of dietary fiber, as a result when eaten before meal makes one full and thus the person would not consume so much calories in normal cooked foods. The reason is fiber is relatively “bulky” so to speak and takes up much space in the stomach. When digestion is taking place on fibrous foods, it takes a longer time to move from the stomach to the digestive tract while keeping the person full all the while with lesser calories.
Fat burn takes place and because the person is feeling full, there won’t be need to eat more before the next meal, and of course weight is lost in the process. Additionally, eggplants have plenty antioxidant, vitamins, minerals and low in carbohydrate. Research studies have also shown that those suffering from type 2 diebetes should embrace this vegetable as all of these also contribute in weight loss when eaten frequently.
In Cancer Treatment
Science studies have shown that eating egg plant can help in the prevention and treatment of cancers, especially colon cancers.
How Does Eating Egg Plant Help In Treating Cancer?
Here is the scientific explanation to it.
Fiber is important in the treatment of colon cancers. Egg plant has plenty of fiber content. Fibers are porous and have absorbing properties in the body. When egg plant is eaten, as the fibers moves from the stomach through the digestive tracts to the intestines, it has the tendency to absord toxins and dangerous chemicals that could lead to the development of colon cancer, while it is moving.
For best results, more of the skin of the egg plant should be eaten as it is found that the skin has more fiber than the inner parts of the plant.
Better Skin Tone
Egg plant has a lot of water content. Apart from the bones, fat, muscles, and organs in our body, water makes up a major component of our body. It has been found that a body that has good supply of water gets the benefits of a healthy skin as water helps in the overall detoxification process in the body.
To supply water to the body, drinking plenty of water or eating veggies like egg plant help in supplying the body the needed amount of water for a healthy and toned skin. For best results, eggplant should be eaten raw instead of cooking it.
3. Sweet Potatoes
Many people feel that Sweet potatoes are like other carbohydrate foods like Yam, Cocoyam etc that has a high carbohydrate content. In this article, you are going to learn how you can add sweet potatoes as one of the foods to help you in losing weight.
Sweet Potatoes are known as root vegetables and has dozens of anti-cancer nutrients like Vitamin A, C and Manganese. Below you are ways that sweet-potato-raweating tomatoes can help you to lose weight.
  • Sweet Potatoes have high amount of dietary fiber content, meaning that it is good for those wishing to lose weight as plenty of fibers in the body makes one have the feeling of fullness, and thus limits hunger which makes adding more calories to the body results to fat gain.
  • Sweet Potatoes are heart-friendly. The potassium in sweet potatoes can protect your heart by lowering your blood pressure according to the American Heart Association.
  • Additionally, the healthy fiber content helps to “draw” or absorb “bad” cholesterol from the arteries of the heart, allowing a free flow of oxygen, water, and blood thus enabling a healthy and normal blood pressure in the body.
  • Sweet Potatoes improves digestion. The fibers in sweet potatoes can soften the size of your stool, hence making it easier to pass out. That is why eating sweet potatoes is known to prevent constipation and alleviate irritable bowel syndrome.
4. Fresh Pepper
Be it red, green or yellow pepper, the taste of chili pepper on the tongue can cause some people to start sweating especially when it is used to prepare a delicious meal that is also hot.
istock_photo_of_bell_peppersPepper has a known antioxidant called “capsaicin”. This is the substance that produces the heat effect on the tongue when pepper is eaten.
Interestingly, scientists have discovered that this substance in pepper(capsaicin) has the ability to curb appetite and the desire to eat more foods.
A recent research also indicated that eating pepper can help to increase metabolism slightly and thus increase fat burning throughout the day. So if you do not like peppers, why not try adding some fresh ones into your diet starting today.
5. Carrots
One of the best vegetable fruits for weight loss is carrot. Carrot is no doubt a very known and popular vegetable.
Carrot is known to have a thick layer of skin when eaten raw. However, it has been discovered that for the body to fully maximize the health Carrots1benefit of carrot and fully absorb the minerals and vitamins in these vegetables, it is better to juice the carrot.
By juicing carrots, you break down the cells of the thick layered wall and increase the concentration of carrots the body can use.
What are the health benefits of carrots?
As a juice, carrots can help in healing muscles and bones after workouts as it contains a good amount of Vitamin A. The Vitamin C in carrots helps to regulate blood sugar levels in the body.
Carrots also contain micronutrients like Vitamin B1, B2, and B6 which are very essential in the breaking down of fat molecules, protein and glucose and thus increasing the ability to build muscles which helps in faster burning of fat in the body which results in increased metabolism and subsequently, weight loss.
On the Macro nutrient level, carrots contain only 94 calories, 0.4g of Fat, 21.9g of carbohydrate and 9.2g of sugar. As weight loss occurs when you burn more calories than you consume, low-calorie, nutrient-dense carrot juice is a great way to meet both your daily nutritional needs and weight loss goals.
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