Whole Grains Can Help Your Battle of the Belly Bulge

Unless you’re one of the chosen ones, you wouldn’t mind shedding a bit of butter below your belly.

If you’re one of the chosen ones, you can stop reading and go have a cookie.

According to an article titled Whole Grains Fight Belly Fat on WebMD.com, we should all start paying more attention to what we put into our grocery carts.  Not only could a diet that’s rich in whole grains shrink our “Chicken Graveyards,” it could lower our risk of heart disease.

Kind of a win-win situation, right?

The problem is when most people hear the words whole grains, they think of dry bread and cereal that tasteds like sticks.   Thankfully that’s not always the case.  The following foods are great sources of whole grains and satisy the pickiest taste buds:

• Oatmeal - We should all be eating more oatmeal, anyway. Stir in nuts, fruit, honey - whatever it takes to make your taste buds sing.
• Popcorn - Next to zero calories, as long as you don’t go butter happy (Guilty, guilty, guilty) or salt slappy (Guiltier, guiltier, guiltier.) What makes this such a danger zone for me is that, not only do I not shy away from salt and butter, I always put M&M’s in my popcorn. Try it, you’ll get hooked! - But I didn’t just say that, this is a health-conscious post, right?
• Brown Rice - I won’t lie, it’s not that easy to go from white rice to brown rice. It has a completely different personaility, and it won’t win any Miss Congeniality awards with it. But you can outsmart it’s disposition and actually make it delicious. I cook it in chicken broth, rather than water. This gives it a much better flavor. When I have them on hand, I stir chopped almonds into the brown rice. Works wonders.
• Baked Tortilla Chips - I’ve started getting these instead of potato chips and no one in my family seems to have noticed.  I try to keep some homemade salsa, pico de gallo, or guacamole on stand by.

Read the very informative Whole Grains Fight Belly Fat article by clicking the link.

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