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Weight Loss Tips: Stall Sugar With Your Diet
The 7 Simplest Rules For Weight Loss
Use these seven rules to tap into the power of foods that can naturally slow sugar absorption, so you can keep eating meals you love
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Sugar-Blocking Bites
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Have a Fatty Snack 10 to 30 Minutes Before Your Meals
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Start Your Meal With a Salad
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Have Some Vinegar
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Include Protein With Your Meal
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Eat Lightly Cooked Vegetables
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Have A Glass Of Wine With Dinner
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Eat Sweets For Dessert Only
Start Your Meal With a Salad
Reason: It soaks up starch and sugar
Soluble fiber from the pulp of plants—such as beans, carrots, apples, and oranges—swells like a sponge in your intestines and traps starch and sugar in the niches between its molecules. Soluble means "dissolvable"—and indeed, soluble fiber eventually dissolves, releasing glucose. However, that takes time. (Print it: Use this motivational poster to keep working towards your goal weight!) The glucose it absorbs seeps into your bloodstream slowly, so your body needs less insulin to handle it. A good way to ensure that you get enough soluble fiber is to have a salad—preferably before, rather than after, you eat a starch.
Related: 12 Hunger-Fighting Power Salads
Soluble fiber from the pulp of plants—such as beans, carrots, apples, and oranges—swells like a sponge in your intestines and traps starch and sugar in the niches between its molecules. Soluble means "dissolvable"—and indeed, soluble fiber eventually dissolves, releasing glucose. However, that takes time. (Print it: Use this motivational poster to keep working towards your goal weight!) The glucose it absorbs seeps into your bloodstream slowly, so your body needs less insulin to handle it. A good way to ensure that you get enough soluble fiber is to have a salad—preferably before, rather than after, you eat a starch.
Related: 12 Hunger-Fighting Power Salads
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