Top breakfasts with fruit<\/p>\n
Snack on watermelon or oranges<\/p>\n
Add a side salad to meals<\/p>\n
Choose soup as a starter<\/p>\n
Thornton-Wood notes that ingredients made up of a lot of water can be lower in calories.<\/p>\n
“That’s not always the case but, for instance, gazpacho or tomato and courgette soup are very watery, so the number of calories in them is very low.” <\/p>\n
“If you’re not trying to lose weight, you need to bear in mind that if you’re having a meal like one of those, with very high water content, you might want to add other ingredients to boost the calories.”<\/p>\n
Some dishes that are especially high in fluid may not just be lower in calories but in some nutrients too, warns Benelam.<\/p>\n
“If you make your diet very rich in water, it could become less nutritious than what you might need, especially if you’re somebody with high nutrient requirements. <\/p>\n
“You probably wouldn’t want little children, for example, to get lots and lots of water from their food because they have small stomachs and high nutrient needs.<\/p>\n
“So if they tend to eat a lot of soups, salads and vegetables, you’ll want to give them other, more nutrient-rich foods alongside.”<\/p>\n
It’s a fine balance to consider, seeing as children (as well as older adults) have a higher risk of dehydration.<\/p>\n
Also important to remember is that your food will likely lose some fluid when you cook it, as moisture heats up and evaporates.<\/p>\n
Cooking with a lid or using a slow cooker or pressure cooker, can help stop some moisture from escaping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top breakfasts with fruit Snack on watermelon or oranges Add a side salad to meals Choose soup as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[97,269],"class_list":["post-765199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}