Good news for fat people, who love to relish a bowl of soup as a part of their daily meals, as a new study has shown that soup could be the answer to reduce those extra fats.
American researchers have found that people who take soup, as a starter just before their meals, reduce their calorie intake by a fifth in comparison to those who simply skip soup and eat the main course instead. However, the study has also emphasized the important fact that the soup should be low in calories because a creamy soup would make you fatter instead of cutting that extra flab.
Julie Flood, who led the study, said:
Consuming a first course of low-calorie soup in a variety of forms can help with managing weight.
During the research four types of soup were given to four volunteers. The soup categories were broth and separate vegetables, chunky soup, chunky pureed soup and pureed soup. But all these soups had similar taste and some common ingredients viz. chicken broth, broccoli, potato, cauliflower, carrots and butter. Later it was found that thickness of the soup had nothing to do with reducing fats but those who took the low-calorie soup showed 20 per cent less calories intake.
Dr. Barbara Rolls, professor of nutrition at Pennsylvania State University, said:
Earlier work suggests that chunky soup may be the most filling type, so the purpose of this study was to determine whether different forms of soup might have different effects on food intake.
Nevertheless these findings have come as surprise to scientists who were testing volumetrics theory, which tries to find out the effects of varied soup on obesity.
Source: Telegraph
