Slim Down with This Vitamin
Lose a pound recently? Great! Then keep it off with this mighty nutrient: vitamin C.
Research shows that your body needs sufficient vitamin C to burn fat — and burning fat is key to keeping excess pounds away. So pop your C supplement, or snack on some C-rich orange sections before your next power walk.
A Critical Compound
People in a study who had low blood concentrations of vitamin C and walked on a treadmill for an hour burned 25 percent less fat than people with adequate C. But a dose of C brought fat-burning levels back up to par. Why? Seems C is essential for creating carnitine, a substance that turns fat into fuel
How Much Is Enough
To keep the pounds you dropped from coming right back, you could start your day with some grapefruit, have an orange after lunch, or fill your dinner plate with C-rich veggies like red bell peppers, broccoli, and brussels sprouts. Here are a few more reasons to C up!
For a stronger heart: Vitamin C makes bad cholesterol less dangerous.
A Good Reason to Add Berries to Your Oatmeal
A side of sliced strawberries with your steel-cut oatmeal may make for one heck of a smart breakfast combo.
That’s because oats are rich in heart-healthy compounds called phenols. And it seems that adding some vitamin C (from the berries) is like adding water to a Chia Pet: It causes the heart-helping powers of the oats to grow.
Working in Synergy
When oat phenols and vitamin C were combined in a study, they worked synergistically to reinforce LDL cholesterol and make it more stable — even better than the oat phenols alone could do.
And you want your LDL to be stable, because that means it?s less likely to break down and stick to the walls of your arteries. You know, that process that can lead to heart attacks, strokes, and other nasty business.
Why Steel-Cut Oats?
They take a little longer to make, but they?re worth it. Steel-cut oats — also called coarse-cut oats — are lightly processed. And that means they probably still have most of their good stuff intact (fiber, nutrients, etc.).
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August 25th, 2008 at 11:17 am
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