Weight Loss and Superfoods

By Loreen Kipling


In recent years, the word superfoods has been steadily creating a buzz. Superfoods are, in reality, not a new thing. For close to three decades, underground nutrition publications have been publishing information about these plant foods.

Is yogurt one of your favorite foods? You're in luck because it's regarded as a superfood that promotes weight loss.

If you like eating yogurt, then you're in great luck because this superfood is great for losing weight.

In one study, a control group was given non-fat yogurt. Compared to the other group, the non-fat yogurt group lost nearly 25% more weight. What's great is that after three months of consuming non-fat yogurt, the yogurt eaters lost about 60% more fat while still retaining muscle mass. This, according to researchers, is due to the high bio-assimilable calcium levels found in yogurt. You can try buying probiotic yogurts as well. This means probiotic bacteria, the good guys, have been added to the yogurt.

Fat burning foods help you burn more fat than the foods give you in terms of fat. There is a whole class of fat burning foods, and you may want to look into that with more research. You'll also find at least a dozen kinds of vitamins in eggs. Eggs also provide you with minerals and certain amino acids beneficial for brain health.

A nutritious superfood that is great for encouraging weight loss is the sweet potato. Between regular potatoes and sweet potatoes, the latter are better to eat. When you bake regular potatoes, they usually don't have any taste.

Because of this, people love to smother their baked potatoes with salt and butter. Sweet potatoes are sweet and you really don't need to put anything on them. Before adding anything to baked sweet potatoes, eat them by themselves. Also, sweet potatoes are a good source of vitamins and minerals. In particular, they're loaded with vitamin A. Potassium is also in high abundance in sweet potatoes. All of these factors are excellent for heart health and your entire cardiovascular system.

The Paleo diet is an example of a diet where you can incorporate superfoods. There are other diets out there but the Paleo diet seems to be a good fit because of it premise. It's not too difficult to imagine early humans eating mostly a plant-based diet. You can lose weight using the same approach by consuming plant superfoods.




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