Eat Avocado To Help You Burn Fat Naturally.: The Beet's Recipes

Most people believe low-calorie foods help you lose weight, and they try to fill
up on celery. But because it has next to no nutrients, celery alone won't

actually help you stay full and within minutes you'll be tempted to reach for the
chips. The healthiest way to sustain weight loss is to eat more vegetables and
fruits that are high in fiber, nutrient-dense and will leave you feeling fuller
longer. That includes some surprising foods such as grapefruit, which
has been shown to help you limit your calorie intake all day long.
Even some foods that are rich in calories like avocados are weight-loss
friendly since they fill you up and keep your blood sugar low by keeping insulin
at near-fasting levels. The Beet compiled this list of seven plant-based foods
that are diet-friendly and will help you tap into your body's natural weight-loss
ability. These seven foods will each help you feel full, longer, and
provide plenty of nutrients so you'll feel satisfied longer, check out the perfect
salad to combine all of these diet-friendly foods in one super healthy meal.
The key is to eat foods that are high in nutrients and help your body keep
blood sugar low. To avoid dieting and lose weight naturally, stick to whole
plant-based foods that are full of nutrients and you'll be satiated, nourished,
and have more energy to burn calories rather than store them.
The next time you're at the grocery store, add these 7 foods to your cart
and check out The Beet's recipes for creative, easy-to-make, and
healthy ways to add them to delicious meals.
1. Eat avocado to help you burn fat naturally.
There's a misconception that the fat in avocados adds fat to your body but in
fact, avocados are the perfect food to eat for weight loss. The delicious green
fruit has a bad reputation since one average avocado contains 160 calories
and 15 grams of fat, but the monosaturated fat in avocado is actually healthy
and helps your body burn fat for energy. Unlike eating the same amount of fat
in a bag of chips, your blood sugar stays low and your body learns to burn fat
for fuel.
In a study published by The National Institutes of Health, researchers explain:

"It’s not just the satiety value of the avocado or the monounsaturated fat, but
there is a sugar [in avocados] called mannoheptulose, and this sugar helps
the way your body uses the insulin [which] helps to reduce insulin
resistance." So essentially avocado is a perfect combination of fat, fiber, and
healthy whole carbs that signals your body to burn more fat naturally.
In a study done on lab animals, this specific sugar molecule has the same
effect on insulin as fasting does, meaning your body will burn fat as if you
have been intermittent fasting, even if you eat an avocado. So this fruit sugar
has the effect of mimicking fasting levels of insulin, and the lower your insulin
the more you will burn fat.
In addition, eating avocados nourish your body with plant-based fuel

while making you feel full for up to six hours, resulting in eating less food
throughout the day.
2. Leafy Greens and Cruciferous Vegetables provide fiber and

nutrients.
Kale, spinach, swiss chard, and other leafy greens are all high in fiber and
extremely low in calories, an easy way to add density to your plate and the
feeling of fullness, while still getting important nutrients. By keeping your
calories low and eating cruciferous vegetables and leafy greens that are high
in water and nutrient content, you manage to both quell hunger and lose
weight effectively, researchers concluded in a study published by the National
Institute of Health. Eating just one cup of leafy vegetables such as collard
greens or swiss chard per meal provides 4 grams of fiber and when combined
with plant-based protein from chickpeas or lentils, for example, makes a
perfect vegan taco meal for healthy weight loss (use the leaves of the
vegetables as your wrap and avoid cooking the filling with oil).
Your mother was right when she said, "you need to finish your broccoli before
you can eat dessert," because cruciferous vegetables are extremely nutrient-
dense and arguably the healthiest vegetables to eat for weight loss. Other
examples of cruciferous vegetables are cauliflower (which contains 12 grams
of dietary fiber in one cup), cabbage which has six calories per cup, and
brussels sprouts, which contain 38 calories and three grams of protein per
cup. Cabbage earned its weight-loss cred when it was the basis for
the cabbage soup diet which was a major fad diet in the 90s, since eating
cabbage 24 /7 helped people lose as much as ten pounds in a week. You
don't need to go that extreme, just add cabbage to the rotation of your evening
veggies and skip the butter since it's plenty flavorful.
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Most people believe low-calorie foods help you lose weight, and they try to fill

up on celery. But because it has next to no nutrients, celery alone won't

1. Eat avocado to help you burn fat naturally.

In a study published by The National Institutes of Health, researchers explain:

In addition, eating avocados nourish your body with plant-based fuel

2. Leafy Greens and Cruciferous Vegetables provide fiber and

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