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There are several other studies suggesting that people tend to eat the same weight

of food daily, regardless of the fat or calories that the meals contain. It's almost as if
your stomach has an internal scale with a pre-determined weight that has to be

reached for you to be satisfied and not hungry.

This may explain the rationale behind drinking a glass of water or having a bowl of
soup before eating to cut down on your appetite. It may also explain why people can
go on a low fat diet and yet gain weight if the majority of their food choices come

from starchy food that is highly processed and low in fiber.

You can eat many slices of fluffy white bread before you feel full while eating two

slices of whole wheat multi-grain bread already makes you feel like you swallowed
the whole loaf. Eating high fiber foods like oatmeal helps you eat fewer calories
(seven ounces of oatmeal only has 120 calories) without going hungry.

So how do you choose the right foods?

WHAT TO EAT

If you are trying to lose weight, choose food based on their weight-to-calorie ratio.
You want to eat food that weighs a lot but has few calories and avoid food that is

light in weight but hefty in calories.

Fruits and vegetables are the big winners in the heavy weight-low calorie
department, according to Tufts University. They weigh a lot because of their fiber

and water content and yet do not have many calories. For example, one cup of
cantaloupe or 'melon' weighs 5.5 ounces but only has 56 calories. A cup of cooked

spinach weighs six ounces but only has 42 calories.

Now, compare that to six cups of buttered popcorn that only weighs three ounces
and contains 420 calories or, even worse, one ounce of potato chips that has 152
calories (if you ate four ounces, you would be inviting 608 calories to feel at home in

your fat cells). That's what I call "small but terrible".
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