The recent study found that a seaweed shake could help you to lose weight. By adding the seaweed extract called alginate to a chocolate milkshake can help in suppressing hunger cramps. The people who drank alginate-based drink in the breakfast, they almost felt, a third less hungry by the time of lunch, in comparison to those having normal milkshakes.
The alginate used in milkshake turns into a gel in the acidic environment of the stomach and liberates calcium that thickens the gel. This generates a feeling of fullness and helps in retaining food in the stomach for a longer time.
In order to investigate the impact of the alginate drink in reducing hunger pangs, the researchers from Unilever Research & Development in Vlaardingen, the Netherlands conscripted more than twenty healthy participants aged nearly fifty and above. The study participants were asked to choose either a chocolate Slim-Fast meal replacement or that containing the two levels of alginate in place of breakfast.
Then they were asked about their levels of hunger and fullness every half hour for the next five hours. The finding of the study showed that people who drank the higher-concentrate alginate drink felt fuller and were able to alleviate their hunger for a longer period.
After five hours, when the study participants were asked their degree of fullness then subjects who drank the high-alginate drink rated their fullness at over twenty on a scale of zero to eighty, while those who consumed the chocolate shake rated their fullness at ten. In hunger people who drank the high alginate drink rated their hunger at an average of seventy.
Many different diets and diet programs can be effective in plummeting weight. But, many subjects fail to stick to these diets and the reduction in weight is therefore not achieved or maintained. Delaying the return of hunger after consumption can potentially increase consumer satisfaction with weight control programs and reduced-energy food products and encourage long-term compliance with a reduced-energy diet, stated study author Harry Peters.