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Your body has a hunger switch, and we’re here to teach you how to control it.
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It all starts bycontrolling your hunger hormones to lose weight fast.
The first hormone is calledghrelin, otherwise known as the “I’m hungry” hormone.
When your stomach is emptyor thinks it isit secretes ghrelin.
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Leptinis the second hormone.
This is anappetite suppressantthat signals to your brain when you’re full and tells it to stop eating.
That’s where natural remedies that reduce ghrelin come in.
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These foods turn off your hunger switch not only in the short-term but over the long haul as well.
This food is one of the bestprebiotic foods.Prebioticsfeed your good gut bacteria, a.k.a.
(When yourgut healthgoes awry, so do your leptin and ghrelin levels.)
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Other foods high in inulin that reduce ghrelin: Garlic, onions, leeks, and bananas.
The belly-filling power of insoluble fiber.
The Snookification: frying or buttering the spuds.
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The Springsteenian response: boiling and chilling.
To maximize their flat-belly benefits, throw ‘em in the refrigerator and make a potato salad.
Oysters
Resolve to do more prying to turn off your hunger switch.
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Research shows that overweight people tend to have higher levels ofleptinand lower levels of zinc than slimmer folk.
A half-dozen oysters only have 43 calories but provide 21 percent of your RDA of iron.
Other stars: Red Delicious, Northern Spy, Cortland, Mutsu, Macintosh.
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ACV is a key ingredient in ourZero Belly vinaigrette.
Mix up a batch and you’ll have enough delicious, additive-free dressing for a week.
“Eat a handful mid-afternoon.
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Almonds are great but if you love cashews or peanuts, go for it!”
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