Start Your Meal Right With Soup

Having a dilemma on how to control your appetite? Start your meals right with soup.

According to a study made by Pennsylvania State University those who fill their stomachs with soup at the start of a meal eat less overall.

Researchers gave low-calorie soup made of chicken broth, broccoli, potato, cauliflower, carrots and butter to 60 normal-weight men and women once a week for five weeks. Diners were found to eat 20 percent less when they had both soup and lunch.

According to Dr. Barbara Rolls, who is the Guthrie Chair of Nutrition at the University, said, "Consuming a first-course low-calorie soup, in a variety of forms, can help with managing weight. This strategy allows people to get an extra course meal, while eating fewer total calories."

Charu Dua, chief dietician of Max Superspecialty Hospital, however added, "Attention must be given that corn flour and milk not added to the soup which immediately takes the calories to 100-150. Cream of chicken or spinach soup have nearly 200 calories.