Healthy juices not so healthy
The healthiest drinks are those which are most natural. Fruit juices are not healthy as they contain only a maximum of 20% of real fruit juice, the rest are sugars, preservatives (which producers do not have to state in ingredients), colorants, etc. If you want to drink a healthy juice, make it yourself. In other words, it is much healthier to drink plain water than a juice which does not contain any nutritional ingredients, unless there are artificial ones added. Inside Women’s Mind shares a few tips with you.
Green tea
Green tea is a really powerful brew. It can be used as a pre-workout drink; you can increase your exercise performance by up to 25%. It also contains natural antioxidants which reduce the risk of cancer and help fight cancer cells. Drinking green tea also helps weight loss by speeding up metabolism.
Fennel tea
It is full of vitamin C and minerals like magnesium, calcium and potassium. Drinking fennel tea helps to suppress appetite and boost metabolism. It is widely available in supermarkets all over the world, so why won’t you try it for yourself.
Low calories drinks
Drinking calories is more unhealthy than eating a fatty steak as your body quenches only its thirst, not hunger. 1 litre of juice or another drink contains about 550 calories – an average amount of calories for dinner or lunch. The difference between 1 litre of drink and dinner is that this drink has only empty calories which won’t make you feel full, even a little.
Remember, every time you drink latte, juice, vodka, gin, coke, wine, beer and etc you are adding hundreds of empty calories into your daily calories intake. It is actually well known that alcoholic drinks increase appetite, so apart of drinking plenty of calories, you will also eat more. Ditch those drinks for water and herbal teas and you will see that without any dieting you will start shifting pounds. You will save over 500 calories a day and you will also become more hydrated. Even low levels of dehydration can cause the brain to confuse thirst with hunger and increase food intake.
Chilli peppers
Adding a bit of spicy food helps boost your metabolism. Having a spicy breakfast, lunch or dinner can make you suppress your appetite. Capsaicin, found in chillies and red peppers, boosts your metabolism. Studies showed that this ingredient can even double the rate you burn calories and also fight fat build-up. If you do not like chilli, you can add pepper, japalenos peppers or eat spicy meals like curry (with a spicy Vindaloo curry) and anything else that you will find spicy. They won’t have as good results as chilli peppers but they will definitely boost your metabolism.
Salad, cabbage, carrots, iceberg lettuce
Eating low-calorie vegetables before your main meals helps you to lose weight or maintain your weight as you will eat less in a main meal. Sauces, mayonnaise and other fatty dressings should not be added at all to vegetables as they won’t be low calories any more.
Beetroot
Beetroot, apart from being a low calorie food, is a complete protein food. 6 small beetroots have as much proteins as 1 chicken breast. It is also rich in antioxidants, including betanin which helps the liver to function properly, fights cancer cells and has anti-inflammatory effects.
