If you have eaten too much, you can sometimes feel full. You might expect that feeling to be associated with high-calorie foods, but research shows that this is not always the case.
Guido Camps (who you may know from Heel Holland Bakt) obtained his PhD from Wageningen University with research into feeling full and being full.
For the study, participants drank different types of shakes that consisted of 50 percent carbohydrates, 30 percent fats and 20 percent proteins. The shakes had different structures. For example, one shake was as thick as yogurt and contained a hundred calories. Another shake was as thin as milk and contained 500 calories.
After drinking a shake, the stomach contents were examined with an MRI scan. A thick shake, with fewer calories, provides a fuller feeling that also lasts longer. And that while the MRI showed that the stomach was actually very empty.
Read the interview with Guido Camps on the website of de Volkskrant.
