When it comes to healthy eating, the spirit often is more than willing but the flesh is where the whole business falls apart. Particularly, writes dietician Stephen Gullo at Healthy Lifestyles, when the flesh goes wandering down the aisles of supermarkets and buys super-size products.
"Availability creates craving," says Gullo. Which is another way of saying if food is there, we will be tempted into eating it. The solution, he suggests, is to forget about the bargain super-packages and buy individual servings. You'll end up eating less, he says.
Another villain, Gullo says, is variety: "If you've got five different types of fat-free cookies in the house, you'll consume more than if you have just one kind." So instead of sampling every cookie in the place or vacuuming the refrigerator for leftovers, give some thought to a simple cup of non-fat soup as an early-evening appetizer.
Gullo's suggestion gets support from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where a study found that soup does indeed work as a powerful appetite suppressant. Soup is perceived as satisfying, which may be one reason that it really is more filling, the study adds.
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