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Many of those who are on a weight loss diet plan will put in a high amount of effort to find ways to quickly reduce their hunger so they can see that much better results. Whether this includes adding more fiber into their diet, making sure they stay well hydrated through a high water and tea consumption, or through focusing more of their daily diet on protein as it proves to be the most satisfying nutrient, one thing’s for certain and that is that if you want to see good weight loss results, you must take control over your hunger.
One element of the equation that does often get forgotten about though is color. Instead of choosing foods strictly based on their nutritional content, you may just want to consider what the actual appearance of them is doing to your desire to eat.
Let’s take a look further into this concept so you can see clearly for yourself the element of color on success.
Appetite Stimulating Colors
As we as humans have evolved, we tend to naturally lean towards certain foods over others. Partially this will be due to our own taste preferences that have developed but it’s also additionally related to our ancestors experience with which foods provided good nourishment and which were potentially poisonous options.
It appears from research that foods that are of a certain color are deemed to be more tasty and safe than others, thus those colors tend to increase our appetite to eat.
The most commonly eaten colors that tend to promote us to eat more and more include bright reds, oranges, yellow’s and deep greens. When we see these colors on our plate, we eat up and then often go in for seconds.
This is also why often you’ll find many fast food restaurant establishments basing their overall color scheme around these bright hues. They realize that this tends to stimulate the appetite in most people and use it to their advantage.
Appetite Suppressing Colors
So which colors will work to suppress the appetite? It appears as though foods that are darker in color – dark blue and black being the two primary options tend to decrease the desire to eat and will quickly put a damper on your appetite level.
So for the dieter who is seeking weight loss, it would be wise to use this information to your benefit. By adding more of these darkly colored foods to your plate, you may just consume fewer calories over the course of the day, therefore speeding along the weight loss progress that you see.
It’s interesting to note as well that this impact only does take into effect when you can see what you are eating. Researchers have tested the impact of these darkly colored foods on those who were unable to see the color and found that in that scenario, the foods did not decrease appetite as they would if you were able to see them as you consumed them.
Adding The Appetite Suppressing Foods To Your Diet
So which foods should you be eating to see this benefit? Focus on foods such as maqui berries, acai berries, blueberries, blackberries, black cherries, eggplant, purple grapes, plums, black beans and purple cabbage.
If you focus on these foods more than you do the brightly colored foods, you may just find you eat less and experience less hunger and desire for food throughout the day. Best of all, they supply you with numerous health benefits as well so you definitely improve things on the nutrition front by adding more of these in
