Shed Pounds the Easy, Healthy Way
If you have a desire to drop weight, there may be a way to not worry about portion control at a meal.
In a recent study, women were given different salads as a first course to a meal. The salads came in two sizes, 3 cups and 1-1/2 cups. Each size salad had 3 different amounts of cheese and salad dressing, so that each size salad had a low, medium, and high calorie version.
As compared to women who had no salad at all before a meal, the women who first had a “low calorie” large salad ended up consuming 12% fewer calories for the whole meal. Women who first ate a small low calorie salad consumed 7% fewer calories for the entire meal.
In contrast, those women who had a large high-calorie salad (lots of cheese and salad dressing) actually ended up eating 17% more calories in the meal than the women who ate no salad at all.
So here’s the good news: eating a salad at the beginning of a meal may cause you to eat less food and thus cut calories without feeling deprived.
You may be pleasantly surprised to find that even though it feels like you’re eating a lot of food, you’ll actually be reducing your total calorie intake. The study suggests a 12% reduction in calories is possible, which is quite significant.
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