Soup as Diet Food

The Soup Diet!

It may seem amazing that the perfect diet food has been under our noses the whole time. But more and more health experts are praising many kinds of soup as great diet foods. The aims of these diets could be good health, weight loss, detoxification, etc. Of course, not all types of soup will pass the test, but many will!

Note that I am not promoting any fad soup diets. I am simply suggesting that eating a couple of bowls of soup a day, instead of other snacks or side dishes, will help your diet. Even Weight Watchers promotes Wendy’s Chile as a good food choice for people who want to lose weight. The high fiber, high protein, and lower calorie count make chile a good diet food!

Soup For Weight Loss

Many studies have shown that our brains tend to judge how satisfying our daily diets are by the weight and volume of the food we eat. Since soup contains a lot of water, we can convince our bodies that we have eaten a lot of food, even if we have not taken in a lot of calories. Most of us tend to fall off of our diet wagons because we feel hungry and unsatisfied. But if we can add a cup of soup, snack on soup, or even make soup the center of the meal, we can keep ourselves happy while eating less.

Now some cream based soups may add a lot of calories. You may have to balance the calories vs. the actual nutrients. And you can find a lot of lower calorie substitues for many classics. But most classic soups pack a lot of punch for the calories they contribute to your diet.

Soup For Detoxification

Many kinds of soup are perfect to keep our bodies flushed out. Combine high fiber soups with beans and whole grains with a high water content. You have a perfect recipe for good digestion!

Chicken Soup is Good For The Body and Soul!

Scientists are now confirming what your mom and grandma already knew. Chicken soup may be good medicine. A team at the University of Nebraska found that chicken soup contains ingredients that help us feel better and get healthy.  Of course, the scientists did not discount the impact of the TLC we get when somebody makes us a bowl of soup.

Fast and Easy Diet Potato Soup Recipe

I think it is pretty easy to find a chicken soup of vegetable soup recipe that contains few calories. But creamy potato soup has got to be one of my all time favorite comfort foods. I wanted to find a way to prepare it that was really simple, tasted good, and would be guilt free!

You need: One large potato, 1 cup of skim milk, pepper to taste, salt, other seasonings to taste,  imitation bacon bits or turkey bacon (a couple of slices or equiv.), 1/3 cup cheese (you can use low fat cheese), 1 tsp. of butter cooking spray).

You do:

• Mash the potato. You can mirowave it for about 5 minutes or boil it.
• Cook the bacon if you use it. Then crumble it up. Imitation bacon bits will already be crumbled.
• In a large bowl, mash in the milk. Add salt and pepper to taste. You may also add some other herbs like rosemary to taste.
• Warm up the mix again. Before you serve it sprinkle on the butter, cheese, and bacon.

• Enjoy!

Do you have any other healthy soup ideas?

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