Eating foods with a high water content, are a great way to help you if you are trying to lose weight. It is believed that eating certain dishes which contain the following foods fill you up more. These are soup, stew, pasta and rice.
But another requirement is that you need to have some liquid as well, in order to get the full benefit from eating this way. It isn’t enough just to have some water with your meal. That alone by itself will not work.
The great thing about water rich foods is they tend to contain less calories. And contain a lower energy density. So the theory is this if we eat foods that are bulky due to the amount of water content, but lesser calorific value. Then this will help us to lose weight because we are eating less calories.
To be able to work out the particular energy density of the food here is the formula, what you have to do is divide the calories by the foods weight. So if we take a typical example of a bag of crisps which has 200 calories and weighs 40 grams.
This has they energy density of five which puts it, at the high end of the scale. Which isn’t what we want, foods which are at the lower end of the scale, and have a you reading of 1.5 are the following foods. Vegetable soups, potatoes, low-fat yoghurts, baked beans and cornflakes.
Foods which are in between or in the middle, tend to be pizza, chips, strawberries, cream, steak and lasagne.
Dr Elisabeth Weichselbaum, whom is a scientist who studies nutrition says that, you should include foods with a low energy density when you’re having a meal. And mix it up a bit so you are eating, some low density, medium density and high density foods within your diet will balance things out quite nicely.
If you look at the following chart below then you can see which foods are which. It probably is a better idea to eat more lower density foods though because this will help you to lose more weight.

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