Lose Weight by Eating Soup
Anyone trying to lose weight will tell you how difficult it is. In a way, it's hard to blame people who cannot lose weight. The reason losing weight is difficult is because over the hundreds of thousands of years that we as humans have evolved our brains tell us to eat high calories food. This is because your brain still thinks we live in a cave where food is scarce. In our modern world however, the opposite is true. We live in a world of cheap, high calorie food, and our bodies have evolved to tell us to eat it!
In the late 90's scientists discovered a hormone that makes us feel hungry. It's called "ghrelin".
The walls of our stomach release this hormone where it then travels in the blood to the brain, where the brain detects it and tells our body we need to eat.
The important thing with this cell though is that it is only released when the walls of our stomach are not stretched... i.e. when our stomachs are empty. If you are full (stomach wall stretched) then the hormone is not released.
Right, so far nothing too taxing here - if the wall of the stomach is stretched we are full and the hormone is not released and therefore we don't feel hungry, and vice versa.
Now let's look at an every day situation. At lunchtimes say you have a drink of water and a sandwich. This will probably keep you from feeling hungry for a couple of hours, but no more.
Something funny happens when you blend the water with the food, i.e. you make soup - you end up feeling fuller for longer. How can this be when you have consumed the same amount of food?
The reason for this is because the stomach doesn't need to digest water, so it flows through quite quickly, whereas food flows through much slower because it needs to be digested. However, if you blend the water with the food the whole lot is held back by the stomach, so you'll not produce any ghrelin and you will feel fuller for longer!
Very simple. Very effective. Eating soup at lunchtimes will help you lose weight because it will hold off those mid afte
oon cravings!
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