Whole Grain Cereal, Milk, Oats

Hidden Ingredients: Fiber, Calcium and Complex Carbohydrates

How it works:

Fiber and Complex Carbohydrates pump up metabolic process by maintaining the levels of insulin low after your meal. That's very good, because spikes in the insulin production sends a signal to the body that it's time to start piling fat. To stockpile fat, your body has to slow down your metabolism, which causes you to burn fewer calories, according to a professor of nutrition and medicine at the State University of N.Y. at Stony Brook. Oats breaks down slowly in the stomach, leading to fewer spike in insulin levels than foods like bagels. Eating breakfast can as well help stoke your daily calorie burn, other than helping to keep the production of insulin low. When the U.S. Naval Forces studied the eating habits and metabolisms of a group of its personnel department, it discovered that eating breakfast greatly helped enhance the men's metabolisms by as much as 10%. You slow down your metabolism and prime your body to store fat, when you skip meals. The calcium in milk activates metabolism as well. A University of Tennessee study detetermined that dieters who consumed between 1,200 to 1,300 milligrams (mg) of calcium per day lost almost twice as much weight as those dieters intaking less calcium.

Cayennes/Habaneros/Jalapenos,

Hidden Ingredient: Capsaicin (the chemical in peppers)

How it works:

It accelerates or speeds up your heart rate. A report from the late '80s seen that eating a single spicy meal evidently increases your metabolism up to 25%, with the spike in burning calorie lasting for up to three (3) hours after you eat. Recently, a report conducted at Laval University situated in Quebec have shown that men who takes coffee along with red pepper-packed snacks/meals apparently burned almost 1,000 more calories in a day than those from a control group.

Green Tea

Hidden Ingredients: EGCG (chemical in the tea) and Caffeine

How it works:

Caffeine speeds up (accelerate) the heart rate. The faster the rate, the more calories you burn. The EGCG works similarly, but rather revving up your heart, it stimulates your brain and nervous system work more rapidly which again greatly helps you to burn even more calories.

Researcher's studies discovered that a combination of caffeine and a 90mg of EGCG that is taken 3 times a day burns an extra 80 calories per day. Canadian government studied and discovered that those soldiers who consumed caffeine within 12 hours prior to a physical-fitness test not only were able to work out much longer before getting exhausted, but also consumed more oxygen while working out. The requirement of your body's oxygen are directly related to the speed of your metabolic process (metabolism). The greater oxygen you use, the more you burn calories during your physical activities or exercise.

Turkey/Pork/Chicken/Lean Beef

Hidden Ingredient: Protein

How it works:

Your body needs more energy to digest the protein in meat than it does to digest carbohydrates or fat. The more protein you eat, the tougher your body needs to work for it to digest, resulting to more calories you will burn in the process.

Arizona State University Researches has compared the benefits of a high protein diet versus high-carbohydrate diet, they discovered that those people who ate a high protein diet burned more than twice as many calories in the hours following their meal as those eating carbohydrates.

Even better, Denmark Researchers have discovered that men who substituted protein for 20% of the carbohydrates in their diets were able to enhanced their metabolisms, increasing the number of calories they burned every day by up to 5%.

Sardines/Tuna/Salmon

Hidden Ingredient: Omega-3 fatty acids

How it works:

It alters hormones level known as leptin in your body. Several of recent studies suggested that leptin directly influences metabolism, determining whether you will burn calories or store them as fat.

Researchers discovered that mice with low leptin levels have faster metabolisms, thus, are able to burn fat rapidly compared to animals with high level of leptin. So the best way to lower your leptin, is to "Eat fish!"

Mayo Clinic researchers studied the diets of two tribes in Africa -- one of which frequently ate fish and one of which did not -- seen that fish eaters had leptin levels nearly five times lower compared to the levels found in the other tribes ate vegetables mainly.

If you don't like fish, here is a good news: Fish oil supplements may work just perfectly for you. Researchers noticed that men who have substituted six (6) grams of fat in their diets with six (6) grams of fish oil were able to boost their metabolisms and lose an average of 2 lbs. within just a matter of 12 weeks.