This happens when the foods we have eaten turn out to be devoid of the nutrients that our body requires of us at that moment. Industrial sweets rich in refined sugars, ready meals seasoned with unspecified vegetable fats and oils and presumed dietary snacks can be counted among the most classic "empty foods", which provide various calories, but very few of the elements necessary for a complete and correct diet plus they create a kind of addiction.
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"The more I eat, the more I would eat". Who has never thought of it in front of a bag of gummy candies or after having lunch in a fast food? It happens when, despite having eaten a lot of food and calories, we don't feel full at all. We have eaten our meal and shouldn't feel hungry anymore. However, our body and our brain feel that it is not so.
This happens when the foods we have eaten turn out to be lacking in nutrients that our body requires of us at that moment. Industrial sweets rich in refined sugars, ready meals flavored with unspecified and presumed vegetable fats and oils diet snacks can be counted among the most classic "Empty foods", which provide various calories, but very few of the elements necessary for a complete and correct diet and in addition they create a sort of addiction.
here are the six foods who are able, more than others, to suddenly increase our sense of hunger and that it should be limited, if not eliminate, from one's eating habits.
Chewing eraser
Maybe not everyone knows, but while we chew one rubber, our stomach begins to produce gastric juices, as if it were waiting to digest an incoming food. Chew empty deceives our stomach and our brain. The response of our body is the appearance of a sudden peckish.
Sodas
Including - attention! - the phantom diet sodas, which claim to be sugar-free, replacing it with artificial sweeteners, often with a high glycemic index. Zero calories, zero satiety and skyrocketing blood sugar, resulting in a spike to the bottom after about twenty minutes, can only provoke an almost immediate sense of hunger.
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Glucose-fructose syrup
It is a sweetener produced in the laboratory, which therefore has nothing natural and which unfortunately is omnipresent in a vast variety of foods, not just in desserts. We can even find it in ketchup, yogurt, crackers, as well as industrial biscuits and cereals. It works by decreasing the production ofleptin hormone, responsible for the correct metabolism of fats and for regulating the sense of satiety.
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Frozen ready meals
Frozen foods are perhaps convenient for those who are always in a hurry, but it would be good to learn how to limit their consumption, which should be occasional. Ready meals often contain substances that improve their flavor and appearance, at the expense of nutrients necessary for our body to achieve satiety. It would therefore be good to accompany them with fresh foods, rich in fiber and vitamins, to get a truly complete meal and avoid reopen the refrigerator hungry ten minutes after we left the table.
Industrial sweets
Industrially produced sweets, biscuits and snacks are commonly packaged with white sugar e refined flours. This makes them high in calories, but very low in calories fibers, the most responsible for the sense of satiety, often completely absent. We know that it is very difficult to resist the temptation of sweets. We should therefore avoid packaged products and try to prepare them at home using wholemeal flour and a little sugar, which could be replaced by sultanas or dried figs, to sweeten.
Diet bars
The light bars are not always of good quality. Often, although they are called dietary, they contain it glucose-fructose syrup above. Also, trying to use them in lunch replacement, we would run the risk of supplying our organism with nothing but empty calories and insufficient to satiate us, pushing us to binge at dinner, devoured by the pangs of hunger. Much better therefore to bet on well balanced meals, healthy and prepared by us as much as possible.
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Marta Albè
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