5 Tips To Flatten Your Abs

5 Tips To Flatten Your Abs

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1. The Snack Trick

Everyone knows that eating three healthy meals, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, is a key to health living and fitness. What many of us do not know is that adding a healthy snack is also key.

Eating one or two healthy snacks throughout the day is important because it boosts metabolism and balances your blood sugar. This could cause spikes in your insulin when your body ultimately receives its larger quantities of food at the end of the five or six hours. By balancing your blood sugar, you are avoiding spikes in insulin. Insulin makes you store fat around your middle. So the more you avoid those insulin spikes, the flatter your abs. Eating every three to four hours will keep your blood sugar even, avoiding these insulin spikes.

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Eating at least one healthy protein snack between 3:00 and 4:00 p.m. is highly recommended because it boosts your metabolism. Recommended protein snacks can be a protein bar, low fat cheese, or almonds, for example.

2. Glucagon to the rescue!

Glucagon, a hormone, is your superhero when it comes to fighting against belly fat. Glucagon gobbles up the fat for use as energy. To increase the secretion of glucagon in your body, eat as close to zero grams of sugar as possible. This will keep insulin levels low and also keep levels of glucagon high. The closer to zero grams of sugar you consume, the higher your glucagonthe flatter your abs..its as simple as that!

3. Chew your food

Chewing helps your digestion and therefore, prevents bloating. Chew your food until it is like applesauce. Digestion begins in the mouth. Without proper chewing, food is not well-digested. Better-digested food means less bloating, flatter abs.

4. Forget the salt

One of the number one culprits in water retention and bloating is salt. To help with this, try natural sea salt or kosher salt, which are lower in sodium teaspoon for teaspoon. Also, stay away from soy sauce and frozen or canned foods of any kind. Even low-sodium versions of soy sauce, or canned or frozen foods, are still high in sodium and will cause practically instant bloating.

5. Size matters

Eating portion-controlled meals that include whole-grain foods and monounsaturated fats throughout the day leads to flatter abs. People who eat whole grains have better blood sugar, lower blood pressure, and lower risks of diabetes and heart failure. Whole grains have fiber, antioxidants, and essential fatty acids. Whole grains are associated with a lower body mass index (BMI) and a feeling of fullness. So remember those whole grain foods for flatter abs!!

For more information on this topic, please visit: http://agelessnfit.com/2010/06/07/top-5-diet-tricks-for-those-flat-abs/

About the Author:
Ageless and Fit is the brainchild of Harvard educated attorney and Chief Executive Officer, Elizabeth Pons. As an owner of a dialysis facility servicing chronic dialysis patients, Liz became acutely aware of the serious effects which diet, nutrition, and general living habits have on our health and our aging process. Liz is here to share her knowledge, information, and experiences with you, and invites you to share yours with her and our community. Join her in helping each of us to reach our healthy, happy, and ageless destinies.



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