Tropical Weight Loss
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Green tea increased brown fat and energy expenditure in mice. Resveratrol, a polyphenol compound found in red wine, cabbage, berries and spinach initiated fat browning in tissue cultures and also in live mice. Capsaicin, the spicy component in hot peppers, activated brown fat in rodents and humans in other studies.
How Much Weight Can I Lose in 3 Months? A safe, healthy, and realistic goal is to lose 0.5-to-1% of your body weight per week, which is around...
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Read More »We want our appliances to run efficiently. Our body, on the other hand, we’d like to run inefficiently and waste excess energy. If we had it our way we’d like to consume lots of ice cream and for the extra calories to evaporate. Regrettably, our bodies are frugal. Our internal machinery runs economically and excess energy is stored for the next famine in the form of fat. But fat tissue actually offers a glimmer of hope for burning off extra calories. You see, we have two types of fat tissue in our body, white fat, which is the fat that stores extra energy in the form of fat droplets, and brown fat, which is much richer in blood supply and has many more mitochondria (hence its color). Mitochondria are intra-cellular tiny organs that utilize fuels (glucose, fats) to produce energy. In brown fat inefficiency occurs through the “uncoupling protein” – a protein in the mitochondrial inner membrane – that converts the cell’s fuel into heat rather than energy. Brown fat burns off calories, especially when we’re exposed to cold temperatures. While white fat stores energy while brown fat uses it. Brown fat, however, is something we have very little of. Babies are born with brown fat dispersed throughout their body – it helps them maintain their small body’s temperature. The amount of brown fat diminishes with age, with small amounts persisting in the upper chest and neck. But brown fat can be revived, we’ve discovered, and there’s actually a third type of fat: beige fat. Beige fat is white fat that’s turning brown after stimulation.
“The fundamental cause of obesity and overweight,” the World Health Organization says, “is an energy imbalance between calories consumed and...
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Coca-Cola is the most popular soft drink company in Mexico. Although Coca-Cola is popular across Latin America, it is especially so in Mexico....
Read More »Drinking coffee significantly increased the temperature measured in the area between the chest and neck – the area where brown fat supposedly lives. So according to this small study a single cup of coffee can increase brown fat activity.
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cellulose Plenity, created by Boston biotech company Gelesis, is a hydrogel capsule made with a proprietary blend of cellulose (a type of fiber)...
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Water is the key to life, and it turns out it's also one of the easiest ways to help your metabolism. Drinking water increases your metabolism by...
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