9 Spices That Will Fire Up Your Metabolism

Learn which spices you should add to every meal and snack to fire up your fat-burning furnace!

9 Spices That Will Fire Up Your Metabolism

By Diana Kelly Levey

What if we told you that what you eat could help you burn more fat—even while you sit? Adding certain fat-burning ingredients to your diet can have a thermogenic effect on your body (simply put, it makes your body use up more energy to process the food you eat), igniting your metabolism so your body can burn more calories. Learn which spices you should add to every meal and snack to fire up your fat-burning furnace!

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Cinnamon

Cinnamon

This brown bark helps regulate blood sugar by lowering fasting glucose levels, according to studies. Add a dash or two of cinnamon to your coffee or oatmeal in the morning to kick-start your body’s fat-burning sources for the day.

More: 6 Surprising Uses for Cinnamon

Is This the Key to Ultimate Hydration?

See how electrolytes work in your body.

Is This the Key to Ultimate Hydration?

Whether you're trying to stay hydrated for your workout routine or rehabilitation, recovery and hydration is so important to keeping your body performing like it should. So how do you make sure that happens? You need electrolytes — the minerals that give electrical power to your body. What the video below to see how they get to work inside your body and how you seamlessly add them to your day.

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