3 Reasons Herbs and Spices Help You Improve Your Diet- Fitness Boot Camp Instructor explains

As a Singapore personal trainer and fitness boot camp instructor, I am always looking for ways to help my clients boost their health, fat loss and weight loss results. Because of this I recommend herbs and spices that can help them improve their diets and health.

Why? Here are three awesome reasons to include herbs and spices in your foods.

1. They improve the flavor and taste of food without adding hidden or unhealthy excess calories. No matter what kind of diet you might be on, most, if not all, herbs will fit right into your diet plan. Low car, high carb, high fat or high or low protein diets which are reccomended according to your genetics, all can be spieced up with herbs without affecting the results of the diet.

2. Herbs and spices teem overflow with stuff that are good for you - vitamins, minerals, all sorts of health-giving phytochemicals etc. These are best found in their natural form rather than in their chemically produced and often ineffective artificial forms found in many multi-vitamins or mineral supplements.

3. In general, they make everything taste so much better without adding evil stuff to what you put into your mouth - artificial colors, chemical preservatives, trans fats, whatever. Well, that is assuming your herbs were not grown close enough to the freeway to absorb tonnes of toxic metals and the like, or on a commercial farm that uses pesticides and fertilizers the way some bodybuilders use steroids. Organic herbs are best because you want to make sure that the quality of your herbs is high so that you get a good amount of the active ingredients in your herbs. Here are some very brief examples of certain benefits that recent research has been suggesting:

Cardamom - stimulate bile flow for liver health and fat metabolism, reduces flatulence, contains limonene that boosts the body's production of an enzyme with antioxidant properties.

Cinnamon - helps reduce blood sugar and "bad" cholesterol

Cloves - 1 tablespoonful contains the RDA of manganese for women. Also contains potassium, calcium and phytosterols in significant proportions.

Cumin - has antimicrobial properties, good source of iron, helps reduce heartburn and improves digestion

Garlic - lowers cholesterol and prevents blood clots, current research suggest strongly that garlic has anti-cancer properties, helps in weight control

Ginger - anti-inflammatory, research suggests it lowers cholesterol

Mustard seeds - contains isothicyanates which are believed to play important roles in cancer suppression

Oregano - has even higher antioxidant properties than the famous blueberry! Oregano oil has been shown to kill parasites in the digestive system and inhibit growth of microbes. Also contains antimutagenic and anticarcinogenic compounds

Parsley - freshens the breath

Tumeric - anti-inflammatory, possible benefits for Alzheimer's, cancers, digestive disorders and insulin regulation.

So incorporate herbs and spices into your diet, as much as you can, as often as you can, in every creative way possible! You'll not just get all those health benefits, but you'll also enjoy your diet more, so it'll be easy to stay with your healthy lifestyle. That means you'll surely get those fat burning, fat loss results that you want!