JUMPSTART YOUR TEENAGE METABOLISM
With this healthy hipster update on an old-school breakfast you can burn fat with teenage ease
Photos of you in school uniform (with that haircut) may bear a few awkward memories, yet your teenage metabolism is no doubt a fond one. Long before nutritional discipline became an everyday struggle, you burnt off canteen curries effortlessly. Now stop reminiscing: new research suggests reverting to the breakfast of your school years (albeit tweaked) can rewind your body’s fat-loss clock.
Gratifyingly, a study published in the International Journal of Obesity found that increasing your calcium consumption can stoke your ageing fat-burning potential by as much as 350 calories a day. Researchers believe that calcium stored in the body’s fat cells plays a vital role in regulating how fat is processed and preserved by the body. The more calcium stored within a fat cell, the more blubber you will burn and the faster you’ll be able to lose any excess weight.
All you need to do now is bring your cereal into the 21st century. Swap your green-top for kefir, a fermented milk packed with naturally occurring probiotic bacteria also linked to production of the metabolism-raising GLP-1 hormone. A healthy glug will provide 30% of your calcium RDA in one sitting (presuming you drink out of the bowl at the end) – easily enough to reel in your waistline. It certainly beats spending every other school night toiling on the treadmill. Though we’d still advise foregoing the Coco Pops.