Foods that fill you up
Ever eat a meal and in no time at all you are hungry again? My students often ask why sometimes they eat a meal and shortly after they are hungry? But sometimes they eat a meal and they are hungry hours later. Why do some meals fill you up and keep you feeling full for hours, yet other meals or food seem to leave you with an empty stomach not long after you eat? One reason is that some foods are digested rapidly and some foods take much longer to digest. Some foods seem to fill you up and leave you feeling satiated. What is satiated? The book I use to teach nutrition, defines “satiety” as “the feeling of fullness and satisfaction that occurs after a meal and during eating. Satiation determines how much food is consumed during a meal.” The Satiety Index My daughter sent me an article on the Satiety Index that rates different foods as to how full they make you feel after a meal. Susanna Holt, PhD from Australia, ...