Lose 81% More Belly Fat with Yogurt

Self Magazine blogger and registered dietitian Cristin Jones, is on the yogurt bandwagon. She reports on Fox News that those on a low calorie diet that eat yogurt lose a whopping 81 percent more abdominal fat than those that don't.

How Yogurt Helps You Lose Belly Fat

Yogurt is an almost perfect food that blasts belly fat in 4 ways:

Protein: Both dairy and soy yogurt contains 9 of the essential health building amino acids, which can aid fat burning. Unlike carbohydrates and fat, protein helps suppress your appetite and assists digestion.

Carbohydrates: We have a love/hate relationship with carbs. With too few carbs we become malnourished; with too many we get fat.This fat is the result of too much glucose (blood sugar), which is released by the body to digest the carbs. This excess glucose gets stored in your visceral organs and gives you a big fat belly. Yogurt contains nutritious carbs with a twist due to probiotics.

Calcium: Not just good for your bones, according to Michael Zemel, PhD, director of the Nutrition Institute at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville the magnitude of calcium's ability to adjust the body's fat burning capacity is shocking.

Probiotics: The true miracle of yogurt is this good bacteria. From digestion, to cancer to heart disease if you aren't getting a daily dose of probiotics, you are putting your best health at risk. But probiotics do us one more favor: they thrive on the the sugar in carbs!

Yogurt isn't just milk with good bacteria added. The good bacteria literally reduces
the carbohydrate content by consuming it in order to ferment the milk.
It's like getting your cake and eating it too!

**How Commercial Yogurt Can Make You Fat**

And speaking of cake, yogurt is not a dessert. As Jones warns, you can lose the weight lost edge with commercial yogurt because it is often sky high in sugar.

Not only will all that sugar send your blood sugar level through the roof causing you to store even more glucose in your belly, it adds non-nutritious calories to your weight loss program. Read how much sugar is in your commercial yogurt.

How to Get the 81% Weight Loss Edge

There is only one way to ensure that you will get all 81 percent of the weight loss benefits of yogurt and that is to make it at home without all the added sugar and with the full fermenting process that absorbs the maximum amount of carbohydrates.

This win/win combination will have you sporting flat abdominals in no time.

Once you get the hang of it, making yogurt with an electric yogurt maker is almost as easy as using a microwave. Read how easy making homemade yogurt can be.