Use this ‘Secret Ingredient’ to Boost Your Metabolism
June 4, 2007 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Diets and Dieting, Food and Drink, How To, Prevention
It’s whole grain cereal or oatmeal. You’ve probably already got this stuff around the house. You just need to make a point to eat it more often. The combo of complex carbohydrates and fiber work together to keep insulin levels low after you eat. Spiking insulin levels are what tells your body to start storing fat. In order to store fat, your body has to slow it’s natural metabolic rate and burn less calories. Whole grains break down more slowly in your tum, causing insulin levels to remain much more steady than when simple carbs, like sugar or white bread, are broken down and dumped into your system.
Its important to note that the addition of said ingredients to a white flour-rich diet will not help one’s metabolism. Rather, the SUBSTITUTION of whole grains or oatmeal instead of white bread and other simple carbs will.