Summer begins and you are struggling with annoying belly fat?
The Volumetrics Diet is designed to help with low-calorie foods that make you feel full.
Do you want to lose weight without going hungry?
The Volumetrics Diet promises weight loss without feeling hungry.
The secret lies in the food choices.
Those who follow the Volumetrics diet are more likely to choose foods with a low calorie density such as watermelon or zucchini.
One-sided diets always carry the risk of adding more kilos in the long term than before the diet due to the yo-yo effect.
But there are nutritional concepts that make sense in the long term and even prevent diseases such as heart attacks and high blood pressure.
This includes the DASH * or the TLC diet *.
The Volumetrics Diet is also said to have a positive effect if it is implemented as a change in diet and not as a short-term diet.
The diet should reduce and prevent obesity, which is associated with many diseases such as type 2 diabetes or cancer
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This is how the Volumetrics Diet works
The Volumetrics nutrition concept was developed by the US nutritionist Barbara Rolls.
A study found that overweight women ate roughly the same amount of food as those of normal weight - around 1.5 kilos a day.
The difference lay in the choice of food:
where slim women ate more foods with a low calorie density, overweight women preferred high calorie products
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With this knowledge, Rolls developed the Volumetrics Diet, which prefers products that keep you full for a long time and contain few calories.
For example, fruit and vegetables that contain water are often on the menu because water fills the stomach and prevents it from growling.
The Volumetrics Diet at a glance
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Water-rich foods with a low calorie density are preferred, such as lettuce, tomatoes, melons, cherries, strawberries, cucumber or zucchini.
According to fitforfun, soups, stews and fruit dishes are also among the recommended volumetrics foods, as they contain a lot of water, but also fiber, which will keep you full for a long time.
Whole grains, bananas, and other high-fiber foods should also end up on the plate often.
High-calorie foods such as chocolate, alcohol, full-fat cheese, French fries * or salty snacks should be avoided.
Nuts and oils are also high in calories, which is why they should be consumed in moderation.
Those who prefer foods that contain few calories can eat a lot without gaining weight - as far as the theory goes.
To what extent the Volumetrics diet can be maintained over the long term, nutritionists are not entirely in agreement.
But the lack of prohibitions makes this diet a form of nutrition that is balanced and therefore recommendable
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