Consuming a lot of starchy foods, like pasta, bread and rice (especially all at  one ) provides  the body with more than it needs for glycogen stores and energy,  anything that is left over will be stored up as fat. Researchers from the  University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA) revealed that when 69 overweight  people were given a diet with a modest reduction in carbohydrates for eight  weeks, they had 11 percent less deep abdominal fat than those given a lower-fat  diet. Further, during a second eight-week period in which calories were reduced  by 1,000 each day, those on the lower -carb diet lost 4 percent more total body  fat.   It’s drilled into our head on a daily basis but it is an important  part of staying healthy and burning fat. Vegetables are laced with nutrients,  packing maximum nutritional value into minimal calories, leaving you more full  on less calories. Try to consume five servings a day of vegetables (not  including fruit). It might sound like a lot but if you st...