Spicy and Pureed Vegetables: The key to eat more and lose weight?
You know the advice: To lose weight, you eat less. But wait! Not always so. Perhaps the key is to eat more of certain foods: for example, pureed vegetables and the cayenne pepper. Just as you hear it: a little more spice and vegetables in your diet can mean a few pounds/kilos less.
For diets are effective and durable is important to change eating habits, which can be difficult. However, sometimes a matter of adding new flavors and open to new ideas that can fill your table colors and be equally palatable.
Some recent research suggests an alternative tasty, spicy and nutritious that lets you eat more and eat fewer calories. How? Adding to your diet pureed vegetables or some spices such as cayenne or called cayenne, cayenne or chili powder piquin or chili powder or ground (depending on the area in which you are).
Both options generate a greater sense of satiety. That is, make you remove the hungry and consume fewer calories. So what have researchers at Purdue University in the United States, a new study published in Physiology & Behavior.
The researchers found that adding pureed vegetables to a bowl of pasta, for example, allows fewer calories per serving and that by combining the paste with the mashed increases the total amount of food but decreases the amount of carbohydrates and calories pasta to use as there will be other nutrients from vegetables.
Meanwhile, use a little red pepper in food creates a feeling of fullness sooner. Furthermore, using this and other condiments helps reduce the amount of salt you add to meals, and the need to eat more fatty, salty or even sweet or carbohydrate.
However, be careful with the excesses and habituation: Another finding of this research is that if you use too much pepper for a while the palate tends to get used to the flavor and then it ceases to provide the same effect as to remove hunger, but if it helps to use less salt that can be equally beneficial to health.
Consuming too much salt can cause your blood pressure rise and thus increase the chances that you have heart problems. In this case, not only is table salt that you add to your meals but also to include certain foods already prepared or processed, such as soups and stews, sandwiches and sausages.
In addition to the cayenne pepper, the world of condiments is very broad, varied and tasty. If you want to replace salt with herbs, spices and other condiments, here are some delicious combinations. You will be surprised how tasty your meals:
- Paprika: for meat, poultry, fish, stews, soups, sauces and vegetables.
- Tarragon: egg, chicken, fish, potatoes, salad dressings, soups and cream sauces.
- Thyme: to meats, fish, chicken, soups and stews, vegetable salads and dressings.
- Nutmeg: for chicken, stews, cream soups, fruits and vegetables (except cabbage or cabbage).
- Basil and oregano, for chicken, fish, meats, vegetables, pasta, soups and salads.
- Romero, for meat, poultry, fish, soups, stews, cabbage (cabbage).
These are delicious alternatives, which added to pureed vegetables and spicy as you like, can help you consume fewer calories without having to deprive yourself of delicious aromas and flavors. Feel like?