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Red and blue fruits, like berries, kick your body’s fat furnace into overdrive.
Piling on the grapes and berries could help you lose weight, says a new study in the International Journal of Obesity. In it, mice that ate the equivalent of 12 ounces of fruit a day (two to three human servings) gained 40% less weight than those that didn’t.
BY MEN’S FITNESS EDITORS
In layman’s terms, it works like this: Resveratrol—an antioxidant found in most fruit—screams “Hurry!” to your body, kicking its ass and telling it to speed up its conversion of white (“bad”) fat into calorie-burning brown (“good”) fat. This then jump-starts the fat-burning process that keeps you from gaining weight.
“The browning of white fat oxidizes fatty acids, generating heat in the cells, which leads to a ‘leaning’ effect in the body,” says researcher Min Du, Ph.D.
To fire up your own fat incinerator, get in about four cups a day of resveratrol-rich (mostly red and blue) fruits, like blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, red grapes, and apples.
And in case you were wondering, yes, there’s resveratrol in red wine, too—you should see the mouse waiting list for that experiment.
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