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Emma Brown
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Kelly Marshall
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I was just wondering.. what makes you feel full? Is it the calories, weight or physical amount? Just a thought - sometimes it feels like I've hardly had any food but the calorie amount is enormous!
For example, some foods, such as desserts, chocolate, burgers and chips, as well as many other processed foods, are high in energy density. This means that a small volume of that food has a large number of calories.
Alternatively, some foods ? such as vegetables and fruits ? have low energy density. These foods provide a larger portion size with a fewer number of calories.
Two factors play an important role in what makes food less calorie packed and more filling:
* Water. Many fruits and vegetables are high in water, which provides volume but not calories. Grapefruit, for example, is about 90 percent water and has just 39 calories in a half-fruit serving. Carrots are about 88 percent water and have only 52 calories in 1 cup.
* Fibre. High-fibre foods ? such as vegetables, fruits and whole grains ? not only provide volume, but also take longer to digest, making you feel full longer.
In practice, eating a diet that includes more of these means eating more fruits, vegetables, soups and whole grains. Low fat dairy products and low fat proteins (chicken, fish) also have a relatively low energy density. If you?re interested in following this concept more (it works well with the calorie counting food diary approach at this site), look out books on the subject of Volumetrics, by Dr Barbara Rolls, available from amazon.co.uk
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