Losing Fats with Lime

Lime water can burn fat as long as you add this one fat burning ingredient. Here’s the recipe…

Losing Fats with Lime

Ginger is well-known for its beneficial effects on digestion, and it has been used as a remedy for constipation, belching, gas, stomach discomfort, indigestion, nausea, and vomiting. Ginger possesses powerful antioxidant properties and free radical scavenging capabilities, including the ability to inhibit lipid peroxidation.

Research has also shown that supplementation with ginger may exert an anti-inflammatory effect by reducing certain pro-inflammatory biomarkers (e.g., TNF-α, IL-1β), which mediate a variety of inflammatory conditions.

What’s more, ginger may also support weight management. Animal studies have shown that ginger possesses anti-obesity properties, decreasing body weight and blood glucose and attenuating adverse changes in hormones (e.g., leptin, insulin) when rats are overfed with a high-fat diet (designed to induce obesity). This led one group of researchers to conclude that ginger may be a “promising adjuvant therapy for the treatment of obesity and its complications.”

In a recent randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial published in the journal Phytotherapy Research, a group of researchers from Iran found that supplementation with ginger powder (2g/day) for 12 weeks resulted significant reductions in appetite and waist and hip circumferences in group of obese women.

This led the authors to conclude that “ginger consumption has potential in managing obesity,” and a recent clinical trial supports this assertion.

In a subsequent randomized controlled trial published in the European Journal of Nutrition, this same research group found that women who supplemented with ginger powder (2g/day) for 12 weeks significantly reduced body weight and improved insulin sensitivity compared to a placebo group.

One unique way by which ginger may promote weight loss is through activation of brown adipose tissue (BAT), which leads to increased metabolic rate and calorie expenditure (i.e., increased calorie burn).

Simply put, BAT is unique in that it burns body fat (i.e., white adipose tissue) to produce heat (i.e., thermogenesis), and as a result, BAT thermogenesis is regarded as a novel, intriguing anti-obesity target.

Combining ginger, lime, and water is a refreshing way to hydrate while taking advantage of the myriad potential health benefits associated with ginger consumption.

The following recipe is a simple, albeit tasty, one!

Ingredients:

• 12-ounce glass of water, room temperature
• Juice of 1 lime
• ½-inch knob of ginger root

Directions:

• Add the lime juice to the glass of water.
• Finely grate the ginger using a zester and add to glass of water.

Enjoy

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