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2. Dieting can make you feel good
Speaking of losing weight, dieting doesn’t have to be torture. In fact, according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, researchers found that participants who voluntarily cut their daily caloric intake by 25 percent for two years saw their quality of life improve in many ways.
Researchers gave surveys to the participants, and those who ate less reported feeling better emotionally, having more energy, and enjoying better sex and better sleep. As far as weight loss goes, the dieting group lost an average of 17 pounds over the course of the 2-year study.
3. Plants are more filling than meat
At least some of them are, according to a Danish study which compared the feelings of satiety from plant proteins to that of animal proteins.
Most people would think that a steak is more filling than a salad, and for the most part they’d be right. But certain types of vegetables offer plenty of protein and can actually be filling as well. Vegetables like legumes (beans), lentils, and peas are quite dense and pack of a lot calories and vegetable protein. It is for these reasons that they are the primary ingredient in veggie burgers.
The study asked healthy young male volunteers to report how full they felt after eating three different meals. The participants ate a different kind of protein-rich patty for breakfast on different days and were asked to record their feelings of satisfaction afterward. The first meal (the control) was a meat patty with mashed potatoes mixed in. The second two meals were a high-protein legume patty blended with peas, and the final meal was the same, but with reduced protein content.
Interestingly, the group reported that the second meal, the high-protein legume patty, was the most filling, even more so than the meat patty. Because of this, it also helped them eat fewer calories during their next meal. This is good news for people who want to lose weight but still want to enjoy filling, protein-rich meals.
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Keep an open mind, and don’t take anything as gospel when it comes to nutrition. Science is advancing all the time, and even facts that were once considered sacred, such as all fat being evil, can be overturned in the blink of an eye.
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