Eat Air To Cut Back On Calories!
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According to a study conducted in 2007, air is a key ingredient that can cut some calories from snacks. By air I actually imply by the air that exists in certain foods! Read the following for a better understanding:
A team of nutritionists invited people who were not on diets to snack on as many cheese puffs as they wanted over the course of four afternoons. Two groups were formed in which one group munched on dense Cheetos, while others munched on the puffier, more aerated ones.
The group snacking on the more aerated puffs ate more by volume, but they ended up consuming 21 percent fewer calories on average.
Things to consider
There are 160 calories per ounce in even the puffy version of Cheetos, and they are not recommended as a regular part of a healthy diet. But there is something to learn from the puffy factor:
You can trick your senses into believing youve eaten more food by pumping up the volume, said lead researcher Barbara Rolls of Pennsylvania State University. By choosing snacks that contain more air, youre going to get more food by volume and fewer calories.
Savory snacks arent the only foods that vary in the amount of air they contain, she said. Cereals are also included in such products. Eating puffier, irregularly shaped cereals are better than dense, tightly packed cereals.
If youre pouring the inappropriate amount on the basis of how full the bowl is, youre going to get easily three times as many calories with the granola-type food, Rolls said.
The reason behind this
This may be because the stomach is filled more by the volume, and so its giving more of a signal to the body to say thats enough. Also, it may be due to you imagining that youve eaten more, since each piece is larger.
But the bottom line is, you do consume lesser calories. So give it a shot
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