I recently got a question from Debbie out in Atlanta. She says, “What type of foods other than red meat, pork, poultry or shellfish would recommend as ab-flattening foods? Also, what are your thought on air-popped popcorn?”
 
So I called on my friend, Nutrition Expert Isabel De Los Rios, to answer this question.  Here is what she said…

Ab-flattening foods essentially the definition of those foods are just clean, natural foods. I can’t remember the list – red meat, pork, poultry, shellfish. Well, then there’s chicken, there’s eggs. When you look at the protein category, fatty fishes like salmon. Those are really great. Sometimes I feel like I’m repeating myself and answering each question with the same answer, but it just goes back to the whole foundational principles are the foundational principles. Ab-flattening foods are also those healthy fats I talked about. They’re fruits and vegetables.  

But more importantly we need to think about what are foods that are not ab-flattening foods.  That's processed foods. All these foods that are being promoted as low-fat and low-carb and foods that have ingredients labels that are longer than a chemistry experiment. Those are the ones you want to stay away from. Usually the foods that have no label, like an apple doesn’t have a label, that’s what’s going to help you achieve the abdominal look that you’re looking for.

As far as air-popped popcorn is concerned, I’m not a very big fan of corn. I think people just eat way too much corn. The human body does not digest it well. Anyone that has had corn on the cob and then hours later has gone to the bathroom knows that your body does not digest corn well. Corn very easily gets stored as fat in the body. I actually encourage people to stay away from air-popped popcorn. I don’t think it’s a really great snack. Is it a horrible snack? No.

But you would be better off having some raw nuts, some cut-up fruit, some cut-up vegetables with your nuts. Things like that are a lot better. The other thing about air-popped popcorn, and Scott, you can tell me if you think the same, it’s so easy to overeat on it. You can just grab and grab and grab. Most people don’t realize before they know it they’ve had anywhere from 50-100 grams of carbohydrates in one sitting. You’re supposed to have that in a day or half a day. It’s so easy to overeat on air-popped popcorn.

Here's my take…To follow up on what Isabel said, if you’ve listened to any of my teleseminars or read any of my blog posts about nutrition, Debbie, it’s kind of in the same philosophy as Isabel’s. I like to eat foods with as few ingredients as possible, like Isabel was saying, more the single-ingredient type of foods. When I was undergoing my transformation one of the switches that I made was I actually stopped eating cereal. I was primarily eating cereal for breakfast.

Like Isabel said, you get tricked because it will say ‘healthy’ on the cover of it. But if you look a the food label it’s a lot of processed junk that your body doesn’t need. That can be preventing you from getting the stomach you want. So when I made the switch from that to having mainly things for breakfast like eggs and fruits and oatmeal, I was getting a lot better results in my stomach area. So just think about eating these whole, natural foods. Just look at your food and say,” How nutritious is this?” Is a box of reduced-fat Wheat Thins nutritious? No. But is a handful of almonds? Yes. So you can just maybe each food that you have ask yourself how nutritious it is.

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