Lose Weight: So unterdrückt Avocado das Hungergefühl

Avocados sind kalorienreich – und helfen trotzdem beim Abnehmen. But that only works if you keep a few things in mind.

Does avocado help you lose weight? A study now supports this assumption.

eKitchen quick check

• Avocado is fatty and high in calories but can positively influence the feeling of hunger and satisfaction after a meal
• The study shows that simple adjusting screws in the diet optimize the feeling of hunger and metabolic processes.
• The positive effect unfolds when the carbohydrate consumption is simultaneously down. That too, although fat is said to have a less satiating effect.
• Researchers would like to see more studies on the connections in the diet.

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How avocados help you lose weight?

In general, high-calorie foods are not the best way to get rid of those unwanted life rings on your hips. But a study by the Center for Nutrition Research at the Illinois Institute for Technology now shows that avocados have a special effect on our eating behavior. The focus was on overweight men and women who were asked to make small adjustments to their breakfast. The most important innovation: energy-giving carbohydrates were replaced in the study by avocados, which contain just as many calories. Accordingly, the combination of fat and fiber had surprising effects in the area of the candidates' feeling of hunger. The study shows that although the total number of calories consumed remained about the same, subjects who ate a half to a whole avocado in breakfast felt more satisfied and fuller for longer (up to 6 hours) than participants who relied on carbohydrates." Almost everyone makes this mistake with guacamole

Avocado with special properties

So far, few studies have looked at the interaction of different components. But especially the combination of fiber and fats, as found in the avocado, could help a decisive advantage in losing weight overweight people. The fruit's properties are thought to delay nutrient absorption in the digestive process and regulate the feeling of hunger. Laboratory analyses support the subjective feeling of the test persons: The scientists found in measurements that insulin and blood sugar levels were stabilized and the hunger-regulating PYY hormone was increasingly released. One thing should not go unmentioned, however: The study was supported by funding from the Hass Avocado Board. Positive reports on the avocado are obviously in the area of interest here.

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