susana78
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I've just watched a BBC ONE documentary called '10 Things You Need To Know About Losing Weight', presented by science journalist (and qualified medical doctor) Michael Mosley.
Here are the ten things that Michael Mosley thinks you should know about losing weight:
1. Don’t skip meals, especially breakfast, as it makes you crave more higher calorie food.
2. Use smaller plates to control portion size.
3. Count your calories.
4. Don’t blame your metabolism.
5. Protein staves off hunger pangs.
6. Soup keeps you fuller for longer.
7. The wider the choice, the more you eat.
8. Low fat dairy actually helps you excrete more fat.
9. Exercise goes on burning fat even while you sleep.
10. Keep moving and lose weight – Just keep active.
about point 6-- The point made in the TV show was that if you eat, say, chicken/rice/vegetables as solid foods but wash them down with water, then the water will flush the solid food out of your stomach. The point about the soup was that it was made of exactly the same chicken/rice/vegetables but, instead of the soldiers drinking water WITH their meal, it was added to the chicken/rice/vegetables in a blender and made into soup. Two sets of soldiers ate the same foods, but the group who drank water with their meal were flushing the solid food out of their stomach into their intestines. The soup eaters did NOT have a separate drink with their meal and thus did not flush their food out of their stomachs.
The "magic" is not in eating soup, but in "not flushing out" the stomach.
Here are the ten things that Michael Mosley thinks you should know about losing weight:
1. Don’t skip meals, especially breakfast, as it makes you crave more higher calorie food.
2. Use smaller plates to control portion size.
3. Count your calories.
4. Don’t blame your metabolism.
5. Protein staves off hunger pangs.
6. Soup keeps you fuller for longer.
7. The wider the choice, the more you eat.
8. Low fat dairy actually helps you excrete more fat.
9. Exercise goes on burning fat even while you sleep.
10. Keep moving and lose weight – Just keep active.
about point 6-- The point made in the TV show was that if you eat, say, chicken/rice/vegetables as solid foods but wash them down with water, then the water will flush the solid food out of your stomach. The point about the soup was that it was made of exactly the same chicken/rice/vegetables but, instead of the soldiers drinking water WITH their meal, it was added to the chicken/rice/vegetables in a blender and made into soup. Two sets of soldiers ate the same foods, but the group who drank water with their meal were flushing the solid food out of their stomach into their intestines. The soup eaters did NOT have a separate drink with their meal and thus did not flush their food out of their stomachs.
The "magic" is not in eating soup, but in "not flushing out" the stomach.
