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Article: Obese as Likely as Lean Women to Feel Full on Low Energy Density Meals.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- November 16, 2000
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2000 NOV 16 - (NewsRx.com) -- In a recent eating study at Pennsylvania State University, obese women were just as likely as lean women to hardly notice when they ate 450 calories less - as long as their meals contained lots of fruits, vegetables, or grains to bulk up the servings and lower the energy density or number of calories per ounce.
Four hundred and fifty calories less a day are enough to enable someone to lose as much as a pound a week. Yet, despite this large reduction in calories consumed when they were served the low energy density meals, the women reported only slightly more hunger (7%) and slightly less fullness (5%) after eating. There was no ...