A Souper Way To Weight Loss

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Take a typical day of eating one meal time we you may have something like, potatoes chicken and some vegetables. With a glass of water in order to try and fill yourself up. This may seem okay for a while but don’t expect to be able to stave off your hunger pangs for a very long time, because after a while you will start to feel hungry again.

But on the flip side what would happen if you was to combine all these ingredients and make them into a soup. So what actually is it that makes, us feel fuller after having soup and how exactly does it stave off hunger pangs.

The answer lies within our stomachs if you take a MRI scan of somebody’s stomach, and compare one person who has had a meal and drunk some water with it. And compare that to somebody who has had soup instead we start to get an idea of what is actually going on. And why it works.

When you eat a meal there is a valve in your stomach, which closes so the digestive acid can concentrate on breaking the food down and the nutrition can be distributed to various parts of the body where it is needed. If you drink water whilst you are eating a meal the valve will still let that through and it goes straight your intestines.

On the other hand though, if you blend all these ingredients together so the water is combined within the food, then everything stays in your stomach so that is why you tend to feel full for a longer period of time, compared to if you drink water and have a meal as well.

The reason behind this is a hormone called ghrelin, this is one of the key factors in appetite regulation this hormone is released in your stomach, which tells the brain when you need to eat food. But once you eat some food and your stomach becomes expanded, then the hormone stops being produced and the messages to your brain to eat food also stop as well.

So the longer you feel full far less likely you are to eat more food. Over a period of time your stomach will start to empty but compared to eating the solid food, it will take slightly longer with the soup. An experiment was conducted on a TV programme, where they gave one group of participants a solid meal and the other group had soup the ones that had soup.

Felt fuller for an extra hour and a half, which is quite a long time you could eat quite a lot of food in that time especially things like high calorie snacks. You can try this experiment to yourself, or think about this for a minute have you eaten a rather large meal.

Then a couple of hours down the line you have started to feel hungry again. But when you have had some soup you tend to feel less hungry. At one time I never used to consume soup, but now I find that I quite enjoy it and it does indeed fill me up.

Source http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8068733.stm

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