Winding Down: NEW Fat-Fighting Tips! - Part Five

14. Isn’t it surprising that high-fat foods can cause weight loss? Here’s another one – nuts. Purdue University researchers had 15 normal-weight people add 500 calories of peanuts to their daily diets. Their resting metabolism increased an average of 11 percent.



15. I’m sure you’ve heard that eating a low-cal salad before the main course blunts appetite, but researchers at Penn State University have quantified the benefit. Forty-two women, who started with a low-cal salad, ate 12 percent fewer calories. That translates to almost 100 calories saved – without effort. [Be sure your salad dressing is vinegar based and you also get the appetite-suppressing power noted in tip 1 and 2. Make it vinegar and olive oil for the metabolism boost noted in tip 13.]



16. If you’re burning the candle at both ends and skimping on sleep, take heed. A long-term Harvard study tracking almost 70,000 women found a statistically significant relationship between getting five or less hours of sleep a night and weight gain. The sleep-skimpers had a 32% greater chance of gaining more than 30 pounds over the 16-year study period. At least seven hours a night is recommended to avoid this weight gain, as well as for other health reasons.



Next time: a synthesis – what can we learn from all these tips?



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