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Sunday, April 23, 2006

News Flash for me and possibly others

After deciding yesterday to cheat a little bit for taste sake. I asked the people who make my sushi to add a little bit of avocado paste to my sushi. Today I have lost another pound from yesterday. I decided to do some study on this phenomenon, and this is what I've found googling;
"When unsaturated fats are consumed there is an increase in the producing of lipases fat burning enzymes. If the body does not consume enough fats, these enzymes are not released. If these enzymes are not released, there will be no extra enzymes to be used to help break down stored body fat.... Foods that are high in unsaturated fats include avocado, chicken, fish, nuts, and vegetable oils."
http://www.bodyandfitness.com/Information/Weightloss/weight.htm

"Monounsaturated fats are those molecules in which one carbon is not completely saturated with hydrogen and this free carbon forms a double bond. Oleic acid found in olive oil, peanuts, avocado and canola oils is a good example of monounsaturated fatty acids. This is also called an omega 9 because its double bond occurs nine carbons up from the molecule's acid tail."

Omega 9 is a Essential Fatty Acid (or EFA for short)

"EFAs in weight reduction:
Omega 6 fatty acids, like GLA and CLA (conjugated linoleic acid), aids weight reduction in two ways: It can activate brown adipose tissue, which is often under-active in overweight people and it can encourage the ATP metabolic process, which burns calories (Vaddadi, K and Horrobin, D., IRCS J Med Sci, 1979). Obese people are deficient in GLA and GLA supplementation can help dieters feel full by increasing seretonin in the brain (Delion, S. et al. J Neurochem, 1996)."

http://www.bodylanguagevitamin.com/fattyacids.html

"Two of the many benefits to an EFA complex are:

1- Increase the metabolic rate 2- Help burn fat

There are several other benefits but in essence, what this says is that getting 15-20% of your good fats in your diet daily will actually increase your metabolic rate resulting in more fat loss!"

http://www.positivearticles.com/Article/Should-You-Avoid-All-Fats-/478

So long story cut short, Avocado paste will now stay in my sushi.

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