Natural Appetite Suppressants Found In Common Foods
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Are you looking for natural appetite suppressants? Do you want to control your hunger without turning to pills or chemicals that you don’t know much about? Well, I have good news for you. This article will deal with five foods that are natural appetite suppressants.
You should keep these foods on hand all of the time because you never know when the hunger bug will strike. The foods are water, vegetable or chicken broth, green leafy vegetables, pickles, and apples.
The first natural appetite suppressants is simple drinking water. Water is a wonderful substance. Your body is 55 to 60 percent water, so this is a substance that you constantly need to renew. But, water has other effects as well. If you get hungry and it is not meal time, you will often find that drinking an 8 ounce glass of water takes away hunger’s edge. Wait 10 minutes after drinking the water before eating anything. Most of the time, you will find that you don’t need to eat.
Now, a lot of people don’t like to drink water. That is unfortunate because it does so many good things for your body. But, if that is the case for you, organic vegetable broth is a “food” that fills you up. The body processes water as a liquid, but it processes broth as a food. This means that broth satisfies your body’s need for food. Chicken broth is an acceptable substitute. Heat up 32 ounces of the broth and try to make it through all of the soup. You will probably find that you can’t before you are stuffed. And’ you’ll do it on only 20 calories!
Green leafy vegetables are the third of our natural appetite suppressants. They have so few calories that you don’t even have to count them! In fact, many of these can even be considered “negative calorie foods” because it takes more energy for the body to digest the vegetables than it’s calories. If you are going to use salad dressing, find a very low calorie dressing and use it sparingly. You shouldn’t use more than 100 calories of dressing on a big bowl of salad greens.
Pickles aren’t just for pregnant women anymore. An entire jar of organic dill pickles has only 50 calories. So, when you need something to munch on, a pickle spear might fit the bill.
Finally, consider apples as one of your natural appetite suppressants. Apples may be the highest calorie food on this list, but they are packed with fiber. An apple will fill you up for a long time. They are also sweet, so when you crave a cookie, grab an apple.
You don’t have to have pills or potions to get control of your hunger. Mother nature has provided a number of natural appetite suppressants in the form of water, broth, green leafy vegetables, pickles, and apples.
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