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today we're going to talk about my five
favorite foods that can actually help
you fight harmful body fat the first one
I'm actually going to talk about is the
carrot now carrots are so common that
you wouldn't think that they would
actually fight body fat but they're
really quite powerful turns out that
carrots contain a huge amount of dietary
fiber and some useful bioactives
carotenoids carotenoids named after
carrots or carrots named after
carotenoids these orange uh chemicals
natural chemicals that actually make the
carrot orange uh along with the dietary
fiber uh stimulates your metabolism and
one of the things that it can actually
do is to trigger your body's type of fat
called Brown fat and brown fat basically
acts like a space heater you turn it on
Click by eating carrots and um it'll
ramp up and fire up and as it's burning
creating heat it's actually drawing down
the fuel that it needs to create that
heat from your harmful body fat your
visceral fat so your brown fat fires up
after you eat carrots and it steals the
fuel that it needs from uh harmful
visceral fat and then it burns down your
harmful uh body fat now I didn't used to
be a fan of carrots right it's in the
salad bar you sprinkle some on for a
little bit of color but actually carrots
are absolutely delicious to eat if you
want to roast carrots uh they are
absolutely uh delicious um now I'm not
telling you to put sprinkle sugar on it
but you can actually drizzle a little
bit of maple sh maple syrup on it if you
want to give it just a little bit of
caramelization not too much and you'll
get this beautiful nice uh flavor uh and
uh it's great for stews uh that you can
actually make uh as well so and a carrot
soup carrot with ginger the soup what an
amazing thing to com uh to combine now a
lot of people don't know this about
carrots but the original carrots uh were
not orange can you guess what color they
were purple the original carrots were
purple carrots and you'll actually see
these uh in the market uh these days
they call them heirloom carrots or you
see them in farmers markets um they're
kind of gnarly looking actually they can
be but they're beautiful and purple on
the outside that's the color on the
outside kind of their skin deep purple
and then if you break it open and you
look on the inside of it you'll see that
it's yellow on the inside all right
purple on the outside yellow on the
inside this is actually what the
original native carrot was like now in
Europe they act Farmers uh uh started to
celebrate the uh uh the freedom fighter
uh who uh William of Orange who actually
helped to free the Netherlands from
Spanish rule and William of Orange to
celebrate it they actually started to
breed the carrot to be orange and that's
really uh the backstory of why carrots
became orange and that's what we see uh
today um the benefit of the original
carrot purple Enos also good for your
metabolism uh so carrots are one of my
favorite uh uh foods for fighting body
fat second food we're going to talk
about are
beans now if you actually uh don't know
this already beans are one of Mother
Nature's healthiest foods if you think
about all the foods you could possibly
eat the bean is probably uh you know
stands Head and Shoulders above the
other if you look at all the blue
zels these are the places that my my my
good friend Dan Butner um has discovered
where people live to ripe old ages on a
regular basis one of the the common
denominators of that everyone in these
blue zones longevity zones I eat are
beans whether they're in Asia whether
they're in Europe uh uh beans are a
common staple so what do beans actually
do well beans improve your metabolism
which helps you fight body fat so uh
what's in a bean uh well you've got
really great source of dietary fiber and
healthy fats and those dietary fibers
actually get down into your gut feed
your gut microbiome healthy gut bacteria
right okay beans are good for gut health
and when your gut bacteria are happy and
well fed by beans you know what it does
it actually cranks up your metabolism
makes your body's glucose sensitivity
metabolism work more
efficiently U good to healthy gut
bacteria lower lipids they're sort of
Mother Nature uh the gut bacteria like
Mother Nature's statins all right um and
they can actually lower uh your lip your
blood lipids uh and they trigger your
brown fat Brown fat being that kind of
engine that fires up and in order to
fire up draws the fuel from harmful
visceral fat uh in order to be able to
burn down harmful body fat so lower your
lipids burn down harmful body fat and by
the way the gut bacteria also lower
inflammation which protects you against
the um all kinds of chronic diseases um
now um study has been done actually uh
looking at uh people eating uh just a
simple can of pre-cooked beans these are
like grocery store beans white beans uh
for example uh and uh it was shown that
eating just five cups of canned uh white
beans Navy beans uh over the course of
the week right seven days in a week just
five of those days you have one cup of
uh of of white of navy beans and you'll
actually burn down harmful visceral fat
and your waistline will actually shrink
this was done at the University of
Toronto and by shrinking your waistline
it actually means that the harmful
visceral fat on the inside is actually
shrinking uh as well so how do I like to
eat beans well first of all I like to
soak them okay you get rid of some of
that phytic acid makes it faster to cook
uh as well uh makes them also less gassy
if that's something that you're
concerned about uh and um uh and I love
to just have a simple bean soup or a
bean stew cook it nice and uh
slowly add a little bit of garlic add a
little bit of Rosemary uh add some
carrots which we talked about are also
good for your metabolism cook it down
very very slowly uh and um man what a
great dish that you can have that's um
gut healthy uh fires up your metabolism
and burns down harmful uh body fat by
the way when you make beans beans the
best part about it is that usually you
make enough so that you would have
enough for the next day so if you're
doing it for dinner making a bean stew
you're definitely going to have enough
for lunch or maybe even a second dinner
and beans are one of those dishes one of
those foods that tastes better the
second day even better the second day
all right so that's the second one of my
uh favorite foods that fight fat third
food let's talk about Chili
Peppers okay now I know some of you are
saying you know I can't stand spicy food
well you're probably a super taster that
means that your taste buds are really
really densely packed on your tongue so
even a little bit of chili pepper
stimulates all these taste buds and you
know it can actually be a little hard to
take but for most people Chili Peppers
are just fine and in fact it's that Zing
that you get uh when you have hot sauce
for example uh something spicy uh and
chili peppers come in all sorts of uh
forms right you can actually have them
fresh off the plant um sauteed fresh
chilies you can have them uh roasted uh
roasted chilies actually have this
deeper uh slightly uh different flavor
than the fresh ones you would H that you
can have them dried right so think about
what you sprinkle on a pizza those dried
chili flakes also chili all right and
then uh there is chili powder which you
can have as well now there are hundreds
of different kinds of chilies and I'm
not going to really talk about all the
different types of chili but I do want
to say that Chili Peppers contain a
natural bioactive a natural chemical
called
capin that's capap s c capsacin and this
is the natural chemical that fires up um
your on your taste buds so here's what
happens you have some chili pepper let's
call it hot sauce you know the those
that show where they actually have
celebrities eat super hot wings all
right and you can kind of see that
reaction when the sauce gets hotter well
that's a capsacin uh and capsacin
attaches to the taste buuz of your
tongue okay here's a caps here's the
taste Spud it gets right into that taste
Spud and it fires up a signal all right
that's the key going to the lock and it
turns sends a signal from your tongue
into your brain now that signal from
capses into your brain causes your brain
to release hormones okay in this case uh
epinephrine and that's a stress hormone
that comes down it causes you to sweat
it causes you to breathe uh more heavily
uh turn it causes you to flush and get
red sound familiar after eating really
really spicy food so we know this
happens and actually if you eat
something really spicy and close your
eyes you'll actually feel that signal
going into your brain and coming down
your neck because the hormone that
neurotransmitter actually goes down the
nerves to your neck and you know what
they do that uh adrenaline norrine
actually uh fires up your brown fat
remember the brown fat that's a kind of
fat that actually fires up uh like a
space heater and it burns down harmful
visceral fat so back to the chili pepper
when you eat spicy chili peppers all
right what you're doing is you're
actually firing up your brain your brain
is then sending the signal to your brown
fat and your brown Fat's burning down
harmful body fat I happen to like um
spicy foods not too spicy but spicy
enough it it's just sort of part of The
Joy of Eating have a little different
flavor um if you're not sure how to
actually look at Chili Peppers um go to
one of these uh hot sauce stores and
they have they're a wealth of
information uh about them uh but you
know um you should try it it actually is
really really good A little bit of spice
uh is actually really nice in terms of
your metabolism okay next food we're
going to talk about mushrooms are great
for burning down harmful body fat now
how does that happen how does a lowly
lowly white button mushroom do this well
it turns out that mushrooms um are kind
of soft but they're pretty powerful they
contain a natural substance called beta
D glucan GL Caan beta D glucan is a
soluble fiber and you know what that
soluble fiber does it actually gets down
and feeds your gut bacteria beta glucan
also turns on your brown fat to help
down burn down harmful white visceral
fat uh and beta glucan also lowers
inflammation so again mushrooms are have
these
multi-pronged uh effects to help you
burn down body fat and let's talk about
mushrooms for a second because I love
mushrooms I like to cook um I love
eating mushrooms uh the beta glucan is
found in fancy mushrooms like porini all
right but morals but bqu even found in
that lowly lowly white button mushroom
all right so if you go to the grocery
store and you buite white button
mushrooms they very inexpensive what do
we normally do right we take them home
maybe wash them off a little bit
sometimes there's a little bit dirt on
them I highly recommend that um and then
we cut off the stem and I used to throw
away the stem and just eat the cap cook
with the cap but I'm telling you the B
glucans in the cap of the mushroom all
right so you've got good stuff in the
cap but the stem has twice as much of
the beta de glue can all right so eat
the stem eat the stem as well as the cap
if you're not sure what to do with the
stem you can sauté them or you can make
them into a soup just put them into a
blender uh you can actually even put it
into a smoothie kind of a as a as part
of it'll give a little bit earthy uh
flavor to it um but I will tell you that
uh or put into a soup
but uh bed glucan in the mushrooms so
white button mushrooms um shitake
mushrooms Miaki mushrooms um oyster
mushrooms
portabello uh uh all criminy all great
culinary mushrooms now how come I
haven't mentioned the other types of
mushrooms like lions man uh RI Etc CPS
because those are medicinal mushrooms
and I'm talking about foods that fight
body fat
through culinary mushrooms you should
use um to fight fat you should actually
eat the culinary mushrooms another Pro
tip that you might not know about is
that mushrooms are are a source of
vitamin D vitamin D is really important
for uh immune health and bone health a
lot of other uh healthy parts and most
people around the world uh especially in
the Western World don't get enough
vitamin D so we take Vitamin D
supplements
um uh but I can tell you that mushrooms
are one of the few foods that actually
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human skin gets vitamin can make vitamin
D but we got to go outside in the
sunshine all right same deal with
mushrooms if you want to have your
mushroom which is a source of vitamin D
make more vitamin D you know what you do
take that white button mushroom slice it
longitudinally lengthwise all right and
put all those flat pieces on a plate and
stick it in your kitchen in front of the
window with a sun coming in and when
mushrooms get a suntan through the
window guess what they make more vitamin
D just like human skin so a little Pro
tip if you want your mushrooms to do a
little bit more work for you in addition
to burning down harmful body fat and um
fueling your gut health and lowering
inflammation you want your mushrooms to
actually give you a source of vitamin D
um slice them open and give them some
sunshine as a way to actually do that as
well um uh by the way another comment
about mushrooms I I recommend uh to cook
mushrooms if you're actually going to
eat them rather than eat them raw and
never ever go out and Forge your own
mushrooms unless you're already an
expert forager don't let the experts do
it because there's a lot of mushrooms
out there that are actually poisonous
they'll kill you so don't do it go to
the market go to the store rely on the
mushroom forager to get you the stuff
that's the good stuff uh that's good
actually good for you all right let's
talk about one more food it's called po
tea pu apostrophe e r h puer t comes
from a small town used to be a village
called puer in Southwest China and uh
this is actually a fermented tea it's a
probiotic tea if you can believe it or
not um it is uh roasted dark it's kind
of a black colored tea very dry uh and
it's got this Smoky flavor to it um I
love it and uh in China they actually
sip po or tea after dinner as a
digestive all right helps you digest
your food uh and it turns out that this
fermented tea was uh used uh for trading
like on the Silk Road thousands of years
ago because fermented tea would last
longer all right could make all the way
to Europe and so they actually took this
tea this the poor tea and we turn them
into cakes and Bricks it's pretty
amazing to see this sort of round cake
solid cake or a brick of poor tea and
you would actually break it with a
hammer in order to be able to get little
bits off that you can actually put into
your teacup now today you can get po tea
That's powdered you can get the leaves
you can have it in a tea bag it's really
worth trying but what does poor tea have
well it's got the same stuff of tea
kakin that actually help to fire up your
brown fat to burn down harmful body fat
but po tea because it's a probiotic tea
all right uh it's got its own bacteria
healthy bacteria in there that feeds
your gut which then lowers inflammation
lowers blood lipids and helps to fire up
your uh uh Brown fat uh as well and so
poor tea is a digestive that actually
does a little bit more uh and it
actually burn sound harmful body fat I
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