I received a lot of positive response from last week's post regarding rules for good nutrition so I'll follow up this week with more useful nutrition information.
The first piece of info. comes from my collegaue Mike Geary, author of a new ebook called Fat-Burning Kitchen. Mikes sheds light on a specific class of vegetables that contain very specific phytonutrients that actually help to fight against abdominal fat.
Certain chemicals in our food supply and our environment, such as pesticides, herbicides, and certain petrochemicals from household cleaners, cosmetics, etc can act as xenoestrogens.
Xenoestrogens are chemicals that you are exposed to that have an estrogenic effect and excess exposure can cause hormone balance disruptions for both men and women. So these can wreak havoc in the body for both guys and gals.
These estrogenic chemicals that we are exposed to on a daily basis can stimulate your body to store belly fat, along with many other problems.
So here's where this specific class of vegetables comes in handy. Cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, kale, cabbage, etc. contain specific and unique phytonutrients such as indole-3-carbinol (I3C) that help to fight against these estrogenic compounds.
And by fighting against these belly fat stimulating estrogenic chemicals, they can help you fight against abdominal fat! So there you go... just another excuse to do what mom always told you and eat more broccoli!
To help you get a healthy dose of veggies I've got a great recipe for you. It's rather long so I've posted it on my website, go to: Stir Fry Veggie Extravaganza Recipe.
Stay fit, stay healthy,
Curb Ivanic, CSCS, MS
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