October 20th 2011
One thing that I hear from many friends and family that are on some kind of diet or want to lose weight is that after they consume a full meal they still feel like they are not full and are still hungry !
Well, the fact of the matter is it comes down to a term called Caloric Density.
Let me explain. Eating a small amount of a given food with very high calories is considered to be a very high caloric density food. Whereas another food with the same amount of volume but less calories is a low density caloric food.
A good example of this would be a piece of cheesecake compared to a bowl of broccoli. The cheesecake is a high density caloric food. The broccoli is a low density caloric food. You can eat way more broccoli than cheesecake and still have the same calories. Thus getting more of a full filling with the broccoli !
So now you can go to the dinner table and eat a lot eat lean proteins, vegetables, and fruit and get full. Whereas if you eat some really bad foods you eat the same amount of calories, but you do not have that full feeling because of the smaller volume.
As a result you are still hungry and this acts as a vicious cycle for getting fatter and fatter !!
Hope this helps you all a little bit.
Robert Andrew
