Flavoring Food Can Assist With Weight Loss
…According to research presented at the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in San Francisco. Subjects using special savory and/or sweet “tastant” crystals on their food for 6 months lost an average of 30.5 lbs., while a small control group lost only 2 pounds.
Lead researcher Dr. Alan Hirsch speculated that the subjects getting the taste crystals lost more weight because they were more satisfied, and ate less. An alternative explanation, however, was that “…the tastants improved the flavor of bland but healthy foods such as tofu and some vegetables, resulting in healthier eating habits.”
Personally, I’d put my money on the second explanation. In all the years I’ve been reviewing people’s diets, I’ve been struck by how dull they are. It’s as if people instinctively feel that healthy food = boring food. It’s been drilled into them that fitness is all about discomfort and self-denial, so they end up fulfilling their own expectations. It’s plain grilled this and plain steamed that; with the same old meals day-after-day.
No wonder they crack and give into cravings.
Eating healthy doesn’t have to be boring. There are tons of ways to make simple foods interesting with different recipes and seasonings – just takes a little imagination.
