| Thyroid boost: When you consume less | | | | the use of fat for fuel. It is a member of |
| calories, the body slows down metabolism | | | | the mint family and is used in herbal |
| making fat loss that much more difficult | | | | medicines to treat indigestion and some heart |
| Levels of thyroid hormone, which help support | | | | aliments. Dosage: 30 mg. daily |
| metabolism, drop off when calories decline. | | | | |
| The following three products support thyroid | | | | Herbsa) Fenugreek. This is an herb that may |
| levels so you can continue burning the | | | | control the rise in blood sugar associated |
| maximum calories while dieting.a) Phosphates. | | | | with heating. Controlling blood sugar levels |
| Phosphates salts of sodium, calcium, | | | | helps you stay out of a fat-storing mode and |
| potassium keep thyroid levels up while | | | | keeps your appetite under wraps. Dosage 500 |
| dieting. A study showed that women eating as | | | | mg. twice dailyb) Yohimbe. Is an herb |
| few as 1,000 calories per day increased their | | | | derived from the Carynanthe yohimbe tree |
| metabolism by 12%-19% when taking a | | | | common in West Africa. It blocks the |
| supplement that consisted of sodium phosphate | | | | release of alpha-adrenergic fat-cell |
| 25mg., potassium phosphate 107 mg., and | | | | receptors, which in turn upgrades |
| calcium phosphate 537 mg. Several | | | | fat-burning. Dosage: 20-30 mg. daily.c) |
| manufactures offer this balanced supplement: | | | | Garlic. Garlic is known as stinking rose. |
| MuscleTech Caffeine-free Hydroxycut, FSI | | | | It stimulates adrenaline and UCP (uncoupling |
| Nutrition Phosphate Edge.b) 7-Keto. This is | | | | proteins). UCPs are located in brown fat, the |
| a precursor to DHEA that supports thyroid | | | | metabolically active fat surrounding the |
| levels. A study showed that overweight women | | | | spine. UCPs cab increase calorie-burning. |
| taking 200 mg. daily lost more weight than | | | | Garlic may help regulate blood-sugar levels, |
| those not taking the supplement.c) | | | | preventing the crash from eating carbs. |
| Guggulsterone. This is a plant derivate | | | | Dosage: fresh garlic daily.d) Calcium. |
| common to India that supports thyroid | | | | Dietary calcium triggers hormones that |
| hormones. Guggulsterone has been used for | | | | prevent fat production and boost fat |
| hundreds of years in Asia as a weight-loss | | | | breakdown. Calcium helps control body weight |
| remedy. It helps burn fat and can help lower | | | | by reducing the amount of fat absorbed after |
| cholesterol. Take 500-mg. daily. | | | | meals. Non-fat dairy products (stick to the |
| | | | cheese and yogurt - many are allergic to |
| Thermogensis. Mildly increasing core body | | | | milk) help maintain blood sugar longer. |
| temperature, causing more calories to be | | | | Adequate calcium intake is important for bone |
| burned rather than stored as fat. When | | | | health and weight control. And calcium, it |
| dieting, thermogensis often declines. The | | | | seems, helps overweigh intervals lose weight |
| following four ingredients help.a) Capsicum. | | | | primarily from their waste lines. Dosage 200 |
| Red pepper. They incite the sympathetic | | | | mg. daily. |
| nervous system, causing the body to burn more | | | | |
| calories. Research shows that peppers boost | | | | Tid-Bit: when is a calorie not a calorie? One |
| metabolic rate. 100 mg. three times a day.b) | | | | of the most basic rules we learn in any |
| Green tea. Green tea contains a small amount | | | | nutrition class is caloric balance - calories |
| of caffeine, which increases calorie | | | | in vs. calories out - determines whether you |
| expenditure. But it is the polyphenols that | | | | gain or lose weight. Why is it then that |
| stimulate calories burning brown fat that | | | | some people lose more weight on high protein |
| surrounds the organs and spinal column. | | | | diet than a high carb or high fat diet? |
| Combining green tea and caffeine boost the | | | | Researchers think they've found the reason. |
| metabolic rate and thus fat-burning potential | | | | It takes energy to digest food. Consuming |
| for a full day. Green tea also contains | | | | one gram of protein (5.65 calories) yields |
| strong antioxidants that prevent the | | | | only 4.0 calories of energy. One gram of |
| development of some forms of cancer. Dosage: | | | | fats (9.4 calories) yields 8.9 calories of |
| 400-mg. daily.c) Citrus Aurantium. Also | | | | energy. One gram of carbohydrates (4.1 |
| called bitter orange or Zhi shi, this fruit | | | | calories) yields 4.0 calories of energy. You |
| is common to Asia. Extracts stimulate | | | | lose nearly 30% of the energy when consuming |
| special parts of the nervous system called | | | | protein, but only 7% from fat, and 2% from |
| beta-3 receptors, resulting in | | | | carbohydrates. This accounts for about half |
| calorie-burning. It burns calories without | | | | the weight loss difference from people on a |
| "wiring" you. It prolongs the effects of | | | | high carb vs. low carb diet. The other half |
| caffeine. One study showed that caffeine and | | | | is due to water loss in people on a low carb |
| citrus Aurantium added to the herb St. John's | | | | diet. Every gram of glycogen (stored |
| wart was extremely effective in shedding fat. | | | | carbohydrate) is stored with three grams of |
| Dosage: 15 mg. daily.d) Forskolin. The main | | | | water. Low carb diets deplete the muscles |
| ingredient of the herb Coleus Forskolin, it | | | | and liver of glycogen, which releases water |
| initiates fat-burning by activating an enzyme | | | | and causes weight loss. |
| called adenylate cyclase, which encourages | | | | |