Learn To Love Soup

Alton Brown. He is the one and only man with his own show on the food network that is not overweight, which is crazy. He hosts "Good Eats" which basically means he goes around the world and eats at some of the most unhealthy restaurants for a living. So how does he do it? When he’s not working, he focuses on soups and salads. I wouldn't recommend only eating soup. But it does produce results. According to the director of the Behavioral Medicine Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine, John Foreyt PhD, "People tend to eat less following a bowl of hot, nutritious soup. It's usually hot, so you eat it slowly and feel fuller." Researchers and Penn State found that the high level of water contained in most soups affected satiety and led people to eat 100 calories less than they otherwise would have. A glass of water by itself has not been shown to have the same effect.