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Eat Eggs for Weight Loss
By WLR Dietitian
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Going to work on a couple of eggs might be the way forward if you want
to shift those pounds. According to new research from the
Rochester Centre for Obesity in America, eating eggs for
breakfast could help to limit your calorie intake throughout the
rest of the day, by more than 400 calories.
In the study, 30 overweight or obese women ate either an
egg-based breakfast (2 eggs) or a bagel-based breakfast, containing the
same amount of calories and almost identical levels of protein.
The researchers recorded the women’s eating habits and found
that just before lunch, the women who had eaten eggs for
breakfast felt less hungry and ate a smaller lunch as a result.
Better still, over the next 36 hours the group eating the
egg-containing breakfast consumed, on average, 417 calories less
than the bagel-eating group.
Weight Loss Resources says…
This study suggests that eating eggs for breakfast makes you
feel fuller for longer so that you eat less at your next few
meals. This is great news if you’re trying to lose weight as it
means you may find it easier to cut calories without feeling
hungry. In fact, based on these results you could expect to lose
up to 2lb a month, simply by eating eggs for breakfast!
Eggs are packed with a variety of nutrients including
protein, zinc, iron and vitamins A, D, E and B12, but contain
just 85 calories each. Old advice to limit eggs to just a few
each week has also been abandoned. According to the Food
Standards Agency, there’s now no limit to the number of eggs you
can eat in a week as part of a healthy balanced diet. If you
fancy starting the day with eggs we suggest you avoid frying
them and combine them with wholemeal toast and a glass of
vitamin C-rich unsweetened orange juice, which will help the
body make the best use of the iron in the eggs.
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