Our mothers and grandmothers taught us that it is very important for health and wellness to eat something thin every day, such as soup. As it is good for the stomach.
But such a tradition is not in all countries, and people there do not die and live long. Moreover, in recent years, many have begun to argue that water dilutes gastric juice, which makes foods less digestible.
For example, the famous bodybuilder Denis Gusev, in principle, does not use soups, and the writer Tatyana Ustinova, on the contrary, prepares them for her family all the time. Soup is a quick, hot and healthy meal for both adults and children, she says.
Which one is right? And what do the experts think about this?
I would like to start with an interesting note about the United States. This is a country where there is no tradition to consume soups every day. For example, this is what struck the singer Sasha Zvereva when she first came to this country. According to her, American children looked at her in amazement when visiting her son or daughter when she poured them a plate of borscht.
However, American nutritionists have recently begun to look closely at the diet of "soup" countries. They were especially interested in the question whether the absence of hot dishes in the diet was connected with the fact that the American nation was rapidly gaining weight.
For example, in Japan or Italy, where soups are necessarily included in the diet, fewer people face this problem.
Interesting facts about soups
For Russians, soup is very important, and it is believed that the spoon appeared here almost 4 centuries earlier than the fork. And it is not surprising that many Russians who move abroad are so drawn to soup.
According to psychotherapist Maria Danina, a person who left for permanent residence in another country, with the help of lunch soup, returns to a comfortable environment. But such dishes also "warm" in the literal sense of the word. It is for this reason that a special menu is provided for workers who work in harsh conditions, in which there is necessarily soup. And he is very rich.
This is evidenced by Doctor of Science Arseniy Martinchik, who claims that the first courses have a high heat capacity, therefore they warm well.
And to make the soup even more useful, it needs to be cooked on young veal, which should be boiled for 3-4 hours. In this case, useful extractive substances will be released into the water: urea, creatine, phosphagen, free amino acids.
True, experts do not recommend such saturated broths to everyone, since the body may not accept them. Many are sure that the first is necessary for gastritis or ulcers, but nutritionist Ksenia Selezneva says the opposite - if there is stomach problems, you need to refuse rich soups, since they will only aggravate the situation, contributing to the production of hydrochloric acid in stomach.
If you want soup, then only cook it with vegetable broths.
Why don't bodybuilders eat soups and can they lose weight with them?
Denis Gusev claims that he has not used soups for a long time. Instead, in his diet, vegetables, meat, cereals. Moreover, it was quite difficult for him to give up the usual dish, but when he started building muscles, he realized - soup too empty from the point of view of nutritional value, since he needs 3000-4000 Kcal per day, and there are only of them in a bowl of soup 300-400. That is, in order to eat the daily norm, you will have to pour at least 10 bowls of soup into yourself, which is simply unrealistic.
But for others who, on the contrary, want to lose a couple of extra pounds, this property of soups will be useful. In addition, they fill the stomach, and thanks to the liquid base, the dish quickly penetrates the digestive system, and the person quickly disappears from hunger.
Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania conducted one study: one group of students was asked not to take a lot of food, but just eat soup, and the second group did not eat the first dish. As a result, it turned out that those who ate "hot and liquid", in general, for lunch ate 20% of their food than usual. And this property can be used by soup to cope with chronic overeating.
Why do many people advise to use pureed soups?
Mariam Clegg, professor of nutrition at the University of Oxford, noted that the ingredients in the puree soups are finely chopped, due to which the mass the finished dish is not so liquid, more viscous, spends more time in the stomach, which means that a person does not feel hunger longer, in contrast to a liquid product.
In addition, this is a great opportunity to start eating soups from foods that many do not like, especially children: beans, pumpkin, broccoli.
Conclusion
Soups are healthy. But with some reservations. First, too fatty foods in the presence of chronic diseases, on the contrary, can harm the body. Secondly, they are less high in calories, and therefore people who are not involved in sports at an amateur level are better off replacing them with more nutritious food.
But if you want to lose a couple of extra pounds, a tender and light soup with vegetable broth will satisfy your hunger and allow you to get rid of unnecessary centimeters at the waist and stomach.
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