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How to lose weight: a breakfast of eggs will help you do it
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
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Almost all of us are eager to lose weight with minimal effort. As it turns out, you can simplify this complex process by reducing the systematic feeling of hunger in your body.
American scientists have conducted research and found out how this can be done with the help of natural products and without harming your body. Workers from the Louisiana Institute (USA) insist that eggs, which we eat for breakfast, suppress hunger very well.
By eating a couple of eggs for breakfast, you can easily survive until lunch without resorting to numerous snacks.
To clarify their theory, the scientists conducted a study involving 20 volunteers. Each morning, the study participants ate either 2 eggs or a small plate of cereal. The portion of cereal was chosen so that the number of calories in it was equal to the caloric content of the eggs.
Before lunch, all volunteers recorded the degree of hunger they felt in a questionnaire and gave their blood for testing. People who ate eggs for breakfast had a lower level of ghrelin (the hunger hormone) than those who ate grain products. The hormone PYY, responsible for the feeling of satiety, was, on the contrary, produced in greater quantities in these people.
Researchers believe that the protein contained in eggs allows a person to feel full for much longer. The protein contained in grain crops has this quality to a lesser extent. Therefore, in order to lose weight, nutritionists advise everyone who watches their figure to pay attention not to the amount of proteins entering the body, but to their variety.
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