Of Dieting and Soup

In recent research done at Penn. State, eating a bowl of soup before a meal has proven to lessen the amount of calories eaten during the proceeding courses. From what has been taught in class, I would venture to guess that this is due to the soup causing the gastric stretch receptors to register "satiation," while not actually providing the abhorrent amount of calories present in other foods. This provides a lower-calorie alternative to fulfill your appetite. However, of course, there are certain soups for which this would obviously not be the case, namely, thick, cream-based soups.



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