Soup's On!
I love soup, and recent research shows that we can eat fewer calories at meals that begin with soup. That's great news!
Barbara Rolls, a nutrition researcher famous for the book "Volumetrics" and her sensible approach toward weight loss by choosing foods with more volume and less calories, led this study. 60 men and women came to her lab for lunch and were served soup. After eating the soup, they were allowed to choose from a buffet lunch and eat as much as they wanted.
Eating soup first reduced calorie intake at lunch by 20%! All the soups were vegetable-based, which of course increases the nutritional value of the meal as well as reducing the calories. Eating high-calorie soups won't have the same effect, so stay away from creamy soups, soups made with cheese, or soups that are basically meat. The more veggies, the better!
If you want to eat fewer calories at lunch, or even at dinner, try serving vegetable-based soup first. Since it's summer, I'm mixing up a big batch of gazpacho!
Barbara Rolls, a nutrition researcher famous for the book "Volumetrics" and her sensible approach toward weight loss by choosing foods with more volume and less calories, led this study. 60 men and women came to her lab for lunch and were served soup. After eating the soup, they were allowed to choose from a buffet lunch and eat as much as they wanted.
Eating soup first reduced calorie intake at lunch by 20%! All the soups were vegetable-based, which of course increases the nutritional value of the meal as well as reducing the calories. Eating high-calorie soups won't have the same effect, so stay away from creamy soups, soups made with cheese, or soups that are basically meat. The more veggies, the better!
If you want to eat fewer calories at lunch, or even at dinner, try serving vegetable-based soup first. Since it's summer, I'm mixing up a big batch of gazpacho!
posted by Lynn Grieger and Mike Ryan at
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