Stuffed after the salad? Load up to lose weight

Maybe you've had this experience: After arriving at a restaurant, ravenously hungry, you first eat a good-sized salad. Later, when the main course arrives, all you can do is nibble and pick at it. If this has happened to you, you've stumbled across a good weight management strategy.

Research shows that starting with a large salad can help cut overall calorie consumption at a meal. But your approach to the meal, as well as the salad's size and composition, make a difference.

To prove that salads can cut calorie intake, Pennsylvania State University researchers gave women large, low-calorie salads (three cups total) for lunch before serving them the rest of the meal. The women ate about 100 calories less at these meals compared to meals when no salad was served. The salads included lettuce, grated carrots, tomato, celery and cucumber with limited amounts of reduced-fat dressing.

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