Soup before meals can promote healthy eating, weight loss

If you are planning to cut down foods high in saturated fats like butter, cream, cheese, and meat, drink a rich umami soup – tasty flavor – before the meal can help.

Scientists have found that soup causes changes in the brain that promote healthy eating behaviors and food choices, especially among people at risk of obesity.

Umami is a Japanese word for expressing a delicious tasty meal, and it represents one of five basic tastes, with sweet, salty, bitter and sour.
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A key element of the umami taste is glutamate, a naturally occurring non-essential amino acid that can be found in almost all foods, and especially in protein-rich foods such as dairy products, fish and meat.
"Many cultures around the world recommend drinking broth before a meal. Our study suggests the possibility that people at high risk of obesity may benefit from an umami-rich broth before a meal to facilitate eating." healthy and a healthy food choice "Miguel Alonso-Alonso, Center for the Study of Nutritional Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center Deaconess (BIDMC)

People drinking umami rich broth before the Meals have shown better self-regulation of eating, more focused looks during the meal, as well as more involvement of an area of ​​the brain that is linked to successful self-regulation during food choice.

After consuming the umami-rich broth, those most at risk for obesity consumed less saturated fats during the meal.

The results, published in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology, could open new avenues to facilitate a healthy diet and reduce food intake in the general population. "However, here we have only evaluated the immediate effects and in a laboratory setting. Future research should examine whether these observed changes can accumulate and affect food intake over time and / or if they can be used to help people lose weight more "Alonso-Alonso said.

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