mercredi 5 mars 2014

Healthy Smoothie Recipes - Ideal Weight Loss Recipes

By Susan Field


This article is about healthy smoothies and their benefits to your health and effectiveness for weight-loss. The natural whole foods in these drinks will improve your digestion and accelerate your fat loss.

These natural whole foods contain many special vitamins and minerals that can benefit your entire body.

When we blend these natural foods we release these important beneficial compounds and make them available to the digestion to absorb easily.

Take care to select fruits like apples and pears that are naturally low in sugar and avoid high fructose fruits like bananas.

Concentrating on low GI fruits will speed up weight loss. Incorporating green vegetables adds fibre to the smoothie which has been shown to slow down the delivery of sugars to the bloodstream. This approach will minimise the insulin release that is necessary to convert the sugars in your bloodstream.

Another important tip for making a smoothie for weight loss is to make sure the proportion of vegetables to fruits is in an advantageous range.

For example a ratio of 60% Vegetables to 40% Fruit is ideal for a weight loss.

Over time if you follow these guidelines you will enjoy the real flavours of foods because you will become more aware of sugary foods.

TIP: Rather than having a smoothie between meals, opt for a green smoothie as a meal replacement. Eating a green smoothie on an empty stomach will be beneficial because the digestion will be primed and ready to absorb all the powerful plant based nutrients.

A successful weight loss strategy is to use the smoothie as a substitute for a solid meal once or twice a day for a short period of time. This is called a meal replacement. This also allows you to continue to eat one healthy main meal ideally in the evening.

For optimum results and consistent weight loss opt for 2 meal replacements on most days.

One of the most important things to remember when using a healthy smoothie for weight loss is that you need to include a food source that has either a good proportion of healthy fat or has 20 grams or so of protein.

I would always recommend buying organic fruit and vegetables where possible as they contain much higher quantities of beneficial ingredients for health and weight loss.

There are many great free resources that offer recipes that are ideally designed to achieve weight loss. Please visit my website below for further reference and to download recipes.




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