Not only on calories, pay attention to: the importance of energy density with weight loss

Calories don’t make you full. Quantity and volume are for the feeling of having eaten enough, it is much more important.

Who wants to eat less calories, you can use that to his advantage – he preferred food has per gram rather little calories.

Experts talk of food with low energy density, such as the magazine “apotheken Umschau” (output 1/2020) explains.

Foods with low energy density help you lose weight

Typical foods with low energy density are potatoes, for example, legumes, lean meat or low-fat dairy products and of course fruits and vegetables in General.

Absolute leader in this respect, among other things, Sauerkraut, lettuce and tomatoes with 0.1 to 0.2 kilocalories per gram.

As low the energy density, as long as this value increases more than 1.5.

These foods you should only eat in moderation

Food, however, 25 or more kilo calories per gram, the energy density as high. In sausage, for example, is often the case in Fast Food and pastries such as the Croissant.

All calories do not have to deliberate on such a food though. Makes sense but may be to combine them. For example, by eating instead of a whole only half a Pizza and a salad combined.

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)

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