Pork Chop Dinner with broccoli and mushrooms

Foods that have a high water content—fruit, vegetables, yogurt, milk, soup, and so on—weigh more, but the weight comes from water, not calories. Research conducted by Barbara Rolls at Penn State University suggests that over the course of a day we eat about two to three pounds of food. When we eat foods that weigh more but have fewer calories we feel full, and this makes staying on a diet much easier. For example, compare the calories in one pound of the following foods: apples, 260 calories; bread, 1,120 calories; beef, 1,132 calories; and broccoli, 128 calories. To use water to your dieting advantage you simply add fruit and vegetables to every meal.  The simple way to do this at meals is to fill half your plate with vegetables. Learn more about “eating water” in For the Love of Food- the diet that works or try the menu for Pork Chop Dinner with Broccoli and Mushrooms

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