A new study claims, eating plenty of mushrooms may help avert or cure obesity.
As per the study, led by Dr. Cheskin, raising consumption of low-energy density foods, particularly mushrooms, in lieu of high-energy-density foods, such as lean ground beef, is a tactic for averting or curing obesity.
To arrive at this conclusions, study participants were arbitrarily given either beef or mushroom lunch entrees for 4 days - lasagna, napoleon, sloppy Joe and chili.
Subjects then changed entrees to eat the other component (mushroom or beef) the next week.1 Energy (calorie) intakes were far higher during meat meals as compared to mushroom meals, an average difference of 420 more calories and 30 more fat grams a day for the four-day test period.
There was no difference in the ratings given by the subjects for palatability (meal attractiveness), appetite, satiation (felling of fullness after meal) and satiety (overall fullness).
Dr. Cheskin was surprised to find that subjects readily accepted mushrooms as a tasty and appropriate gastronomic replacement for meat. He said, they did not make up for the reduced calorie mushroom meal by consuming more food afterwards.
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