Appetite Suppressing Foods

We tend to focus so much on natural appetite suppressing supplements and dietary aids to help us lower our ravenous appetites, that we don’t really stop too much to think about what foods we can be eating that naturally suppress hunger on their own, or at least suppress your urge to eat more junk.

There are in fact foods that do that very well, and that’s why people who have diets high in foods like this tend to maintain a slimmer physique more easily, while those that load up on appetite fueling foods like chips, pretzels, refined sweets and carbohydrates tend to be heavier and be hungrier a lot of the time, for the wrong kinds of foods.

One of the surprise foods that is on the “good” list in helping to maintain a lower appetite are actually strawberries, which happen to be perfectly in season right now and available on supermarket stores shelves pretty much everywhere.  However, you may want to only purchase organic when it comes to strawberries.

More and more evidence is pointing to strawberries as being major toxin carriers when they are not grown organically, because they are not something that you peel to eat, you just pop the whole thing in your mouth. Sure, you can wash them off for extra precaution to get the pesticides and chemicals used to grow them non organically off, but they still have them to some degree, so it’s best to just be safe and buy organic if you can.

New evidence is showing that strawberries may help control your appetite by helping to regulate your blood sugar. Another food that helps do this is cinnamon, and hot peppers and cayenne pepper.  I have found that adding fresh, raw walnuts to my breakfast in the morning not only adds nutritious protein and omega 3 fatty acids, but the fiber in them as well as they healthy fats found in them helps control my hunger much longer into the morning and early noon than without them.

Almonds are a great food to snack on to keep hunger at bay. Also eating light soups made exclusively with broth and veggies with your meals, and eating a large salad with light dressing or a bit of olive oil and lemon juice and garlic are a great way to help ensure your appetite is gone for a long time.  I know that there is some debate on this one, but I find that a banana holds me over for a long time. Bananas are very filling, and they actually are one of the easiest and most portable forms of fast nutrition out there that help dampen the appetite.