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  • Eat Soup To Satisfy

    HEALTHY EATING

    A bowl of soup.

    Healthy foods like vegetables and fruits have lots of nutrients and fewer calories. Eating a diet with plenty of vegetables and fruit can help you lose weight.

    Soup is a comforting way to enjoy vegetables (and sometimes fruit) of the season. It’s warm, easy to eat and may help you fill up. In fact, some evidence suggests that eating soup before a meal can help you eat less.

    You’ll need to make sure your soup is lower in calories if you want to lose weight. It helps to use lots of vegetables and some fruits, and avoid high-calorie ingredients like cream and sugar.

    © American Institute for Preventive Medicine

  • Make Soup!

    Nutrition

    Image of soup in bowl.

    People sip, slurp, and spoon soup not only for basic sustenance, but also to stay healthy. Chicken soup really does help relieve the nasal stuffiness of a cold. And studies show that soup can help you lose weight. Because soup is mostly liquid, it takes longer to eat than solid food. By the time you’ve sipped the last spoonful, your brain will have noticed that you’ve eaten, and shut off your appetite. If you’d quickly gobbled down a sandwich, your brain would still be asking “What’s for lunch?”

    Here are some tips for making soup that’s a bowlful of nutrition.

    *  Use skim milk instead of whole milk for creamed or condensed soups. You’ll save calories and add calcium, vitamin D, and protein.

    *  Soups that feature vegetables, beans, or rice add fiber and nutrients to your diet.

    *  Add the liquid left over from cooking vegetables to soup stock.

    *  Season homemade soup with herbs and seasonings like parsley, pepper, garlic powder, and onion powder, instead of salt.

    *  If you rely on commercially prepared soup for convenience, try to stick with reduced or low-sodium ones.

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    © American Institute for Preventive Medicine