Eat to your ideal weight and let your taste buds control your food intake

Text/Natsume Saiko (Japanese writer)

Many people have had the experience of "suddenly wanting to eat food with a certain flavor." In fact, this is also the body conveying the message it needs, and these flavors of food can, to some extent, accelerate the feeling of fullness. Therefore, when eating, you can choose foods with these flavors to help you stop eating at the right time.

The body's needs as represented by taste

Sweetness: replenishes energy, heals the body and mind, and lowers body temperature

Salty taste: It can eliminate muscle and nerve fatigue, increase body temperature, and is especially needed when sweating a lot.

Umami: It is especially needed to eliminate muscle fatigue, hormone imbalance, and protein deficiency.

Spicy taste: promotes sweating and digestion

Sour taste: promote digestion, promote calorie metabolism, eliminate fatigue

Bitter taste: promotes digestion and calorie metabolism

Sweetness

Most women think that eating sweets will make them fat, so they try their best to endure the trouble. In fact, there is no need to prohibit yourself from eating your favorite foods. On the contrary, this kind of pressure will have the opposite effect of overeating. Therefore, you can enjoy sweets without any scruples.

However, please extend your taste buds for sweetness and think about whether we can fully enjoy the sweet taste of cereal foods as our staple food, in addition to Western desserts and snacks? Carbohydrate foods will produce a light sweetness in the mouth after careful chewing, and this sweetness will also increase our feeling of fullness.

Serotonin and histamine, which are secreted in the brain by chewing, both have the effect of suppressing appetite. Therefore, we can say that chewing slowly can suppress excessive intake to a certain extent. People who cannot stop excessive intake of snacks are because the simple sweetness of white sugar cannot satisfy the body's basic need for sweetness. For these people, the following eating habits are recommended:

• Enjoy carbohydrates as a staple food and the sweet taste that comes out after chewing carefully.

• Try fruits, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, stewed onions, or cabbages, all of which have a rich, sweet flavor.

• Prioritize sweet seasonings that are highly compatible with the body, such as brown sugar and granulated sugar, which are rich in trace nutrients, and fermented rice, which is also a fermented food.

Just like a period at the end of a meal, eating sweets just before we feel full can further enhance the feeling of satisfaction and make it easier for us to stop eating.

This article is provided by Kate Culture Publishing House and excerpted from [Eat if you want! [Appetite slimming method that allows you to eat as much as you want without worrying about getting fat]