Weight Loss Tip: no.152

Cinnamon may help lower your body weight.

Care to guess why?

Yup, adding cinnamon to your food can contribute to weight loss by helping to regulate blood sugar levels, which can result in less hunger and cravings. And by way of stabilizing blood sugar, the body is more responsive to insulin, thus resulting in more use of calories as energy as opposed to them getting stored as fat. So cinnamon has those two things going for it. Additionally, cinnamaldehyde, the primary compound that gives cinnamon its distinctive flavor, may also increase the metabolism of fat cells. That benefit of fat burning, however, has only been observed in animals and human fat cells in test tubes and petri dishes. More research is needed on human beings before it can be definitively stated that cinnamon has a thermogenic effect on fat.

Weight Loss Tip
no.152

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Monster Longe

Monster Longe is a personal trainer and online coach in San Diego. He's helped hundreds of people lose weight, build muscle, and become more attractive to their loved one so they don't have as strong of a desire to cheat on them anymore. When not working with clients or making content that's easy to read, understand, and apply to everyday life, he enjoys making fun of Drake and people who like the guy.

Weight Loss Tip: no.152

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