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The Belly-Fat-Melting Ingredient You Should Start Adding to Your Smoothies Right Now

It could slim your waist in just four weeks, according to a new study. 

When you go to make a smoothie, odds are pretty high that you don’t reach for the canola oil. But new research has found it could help you lose weight.

For the study, published in the journal Obesity, researchers from Penn State asked 101 participants to follow a diet that was high in one of five different vegetable oil blends, including corn/safflower oil, flax/safflower oil, and three types of canola oil (regular canola oil, canola/oleic oil, and canola/DHA oil) for four weeks. After they completed their first month-long trial, the participants ate normally for four weeks before starting a diet high in a different vegetable oil.

As part of their eating plan, participants drank two smoothies during the day, which contained 30 grams (about two tablespoons) of the oil, orange sherbet, 100 grams of skim milk, and 100 grams of frozen unsweetened strawberries

After a month on the diet, scientists discovered that participants had a quarter-pound less belly fat on the canola/oleic oil diet—which contained the highest concentration of healthy monounsaturated fats—than they did before they started. When those same participants spent four weeks sipping flax/safflower oil, they lost significantly less belly fat. On the regular canola oil, canola/DHA oil, and corn/safflower plan, participants lost slightly less belly fat than they did with canola/oleic oil.

While that’s great news for fitting in your jeans, it also has important implications for your health. "Visceral or abdominal fat increases the risk for cardiovascular disease, and is also associated with increased risk for conditions such as metabolic syndrome and diabetes," says study co-author Penny M. Kris-Etherton, a professor of nutrition at Penn State, in a press release. "Monounsaturated fats in canola oil decrease this fat that has adverse health effects."

Read the full article here:  http://www.womenshealthmag.com/weight-loss/lose-belly-fat