Intake of fibre has better results than light products

Food with plenty of fibre creates?a more satiated feeling than food?with little fibre. This applies even?when the food contains fewer?calories. This emerged from a?study using dairy-based drinks?containing 100 or 500 calories,?both coming in a thin and a thick,?high-fibre variant. It turned out that test subjects felt fuller?40 minutes after drinking the thick?milkshake with 100 calories than after the thin shake with 500 calories. This?is remarkable because food with fewer?calories actually passes through to the?large intestine faster. That means than?even though thick food with fewer calories?goes through the stomach faster, it?still creates a fuller feeling. Researchers?call this ?phantom fullness?. The test?subjects did not make up for the difference?in calories by eating more at their?next meal. The study by Wageningen?University & Research was published in?the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.? The main role of fibre is to give you the feeling of satiety. Fruits and vegetables are the only aliments able to provide you the fibre that your body needs, but not only fibre, also they have many positive features like being rich in water, minerals, vitamins, antioxidants; low calories; etc. To this research is added an other study, also published by?Wageningen?University & Research, where they confirm that light products actually cause an increase in the consumption of calories: Light products do not?work in the long run...?Consumers who switch to light potato?chips not only start eating more potato?chips, after a year they start eating regular?potato chips again as well. By then they are?buying 13 percent more calories on average. These findings come from a study by?researchers including professor of agricultural?marketing Joost Pennings of?Wageningen University & Research. The?researchers used data on purchases by?households. According to Pennings, this?means that light variants of sweets, soft?drinks and savoury snacks do not help?combat obesity in the longer term.?