Things I Like - Food

• Milk, whole grain cereal, oats
• Salmon, tuna, sardines
• Coffee, green tea

What do these foods have in common? According to the Men’s Fitness Center* on AOL-Health, these foods and 7 others are

…edible amphetamines -- foods that act like speed for the fat-melting motor known as our metabolism. Eat these foods and you're guaranteed to burn more calories...just by sitting there and listening to yourself digest.

Of course, the article admits that this boost to your metabolism is temporary – you have to either gain or lose weight, or build muscle in order to make it permanent. But a kick start to the metabolism certainly doesn’t hurt.

Thanks to Dad for sending the link.

*I’m assuming that these foods impact women the same way