If you want to lose weight, you don’t necessarily have to starve. A recent study indicates that foods that are low in calorie density, i.e., foods that are high in water and low in fat – such as fruits, vegetables, soup, lean meat, and low-fat dairy products – can promote healthy weight loss while helping people to control hunger.
“Eating a diet that is low in calorie density allows people to eat satisfying portions of food, and this may decrease feelings of hunger and deprivation while reducing calories” said Dr. Julia A. Ello-Martin, who conducted the study as part of …read more

First of all, what’s wakame? It’s a brown seaweed (Undaria pinnatifida) collected off the coasts of Japan, and is used as an ingredient in miso soup or in suno mono salads.
Recent studies show that this seaweed is not only a good souce of iodine which can help prevent goiter, it is also high in fucoxanthin, a pigment compound that seems to help fight obesity by stimulating a protein called UCP1, which in turn causes fat oxidation and conversion of energy to heat. Additionally, fucoxanthin also appear to stimulate the liver to produce DHA, a type of omega-3 fatty acid, which …read more

This one’s for those of you who are using high protein diets as a weight reduction program.
Scientists have discovered the scientific evidence of such diets. Based on their studies involving normal-weight and obese people as well as knockout mice, incorporating high amounts of protein in your diet staves off hunger by triggering the production of a hunger-fighting hormone called peptide YY (PYY).
Pyy null mice (photo, right), genetically modified such that it is unable to produce the PYY hormone, showed to be selectively resistant to the satiating and weight-reducing effects of protein.
The findings show that PYY deficiency can cause obesity and …read more