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Three Fat-Busting Veggies
by docjerry · Filed Under: Health & Wellness · Nutrition/Health Tips
“Don’t hesitate to acknowledge that these vegetables in conjunction with the cliché statement, “Eat Your Vegetables,” have some actual, disease prevention, medicinal purposes and meaning behind them.” Brooke Bulatek
How are you getting your children to eat vegetables?
So after that, the attendant fed them only vegetables instead of the rich foods and wines. (Dan. 1:16; NLT)
Remember when your mother told you to eat your vegetables? Well, now they’re finding some pretty good reasons why mom was right.
I bet you didn’t know that there’s a specific category of veggies that contain very specific phytonutrients that actually assist in the fight against belly fat. (Don’t feel bad, mom probably didn’t know either.) Allow me to elaborate…
If you’ve been reading our DG’s for any length of time, you probably already know that there are certain chemicals in our food supply and in our environment, such as pesticides, herbicides, and certain petrochemicals from household cleaners, cosmetics, etc., that can act as xenoestrogens.
Xenoestrogens are chemicals that have an estrogenic effect on the body. Excessive exposure can cause hormonal imbalance in both men and women. Bottom line, xenoestrogens can wreak havoc in the body irregardless of gender.
These estrogenic chemicals that we’re exposed to on a daily basis will cause your body to store abdominal fat, as well as create several other significant problems.
So here’s where this specific category of phytonutrient-rich vegetables become important…
Cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, kale, cabbage, et al. contain specific and unique phytonutrients such as indole-3-carbinol (I3C) that help to fight against these estrogenic compounds. By fighting against these abdominal fat stimulating estrogenic chemicals, this can help you in the battle against belly fat!
So there you go — just one more excuse to do what mom always told you to do and eat more broccoli! I’ve really learned to like cauliflower in the last several years too — melt a little grass-fed cheese and some organic butter on it and it’s great!
We’ve found a new resource that describes at least a dozen other specific foods, teas, spices, etc that help to combat the xenoestrogens, and can therefore help you to burn that belly fat faster.
Check out today’s Link of the Day and be sure to make sure to get your copy before the price doubles later this week.
Prayer Power
Father, we thank You again that You have provided food choices that give our bodies what they need to function according to design.
Link of the Day
Fat Burning Foods or…Fat-Storing Foods?
Blessings on you as you increase the number of servings of cruciferous vegetables you eat this week.
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Jerry Graham, aka "DocJerry," is a professional lifestyle and leadership coach and a social marketing authority who coaches ministry leaders, small business owners, and network marketers, on how to properly capitalize on the current Internet trends. He is also a blogger, a charter member and guide at Renegade University, and one of the Super Guides at Marketing Merge. 
Sharon Graham, R.N., is a professional lifestyle coach and a wellness authority who coaches a broad range of clients from corporate executives, small-business owners, and other professionals, to stay-at-home moms and dads in how to achieve and maintain wellness. Sharon is also a blogger, a sought-after public speaker, and a great cook who is currently compiling a cookbook. 
Great post!! Too many people are forgetting to eat those all too important vegetables which add not just great nutrition and fiber to our diets, but beautiful color to the plate as well.
One of the biggest problems people have with vegetables is that they don’t like them, so they don’t eat them. Of course they do not taste like a burger and fries, but they are necessary for a healthy lifestyle. So I tell others what I tell my kids, “eat the veggies first, so you can get them over with and then enjoy the rest of your meal!!”
Enjoy some barely steamed broccoli drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with sea salt and pepper. Feed your body what it needs and it will give you what you need to accomplish your destiny.
Great point, Carrie. People wonder about their destiny and then how to accomplish it, but fail to understand that without health, it quickly becomes a moot point.
Blessings to you!
Jerry