![]() What happened at lunch two hours later? The study participants didn’t just eat a little less food they ate about 25 percent fewer calories after the chia. But, as you can see at 2:44 in my video, the researchers gave the subjects less yogurt to compensate for the addition of chia, so each snack had the same number of calories. ![]() My initial thought was, well, duh-if you give people more food by adding chia to whatever they’re eating, then of course they’ll be less hungry. What happens, for instance, if you add a teaspoon or two of chia seeds to yogurt as a snack? After eating yogurt with chia, “participants reported significantly lower scores for hunger” and ended up eating fewer calories at lunch two hours later. What happens if you just cut out the middlehen and eat chia yourself? I discuss this in my video Do Chia Seeds Help with Belly Fat?. Evidently, “consumers are reluctant to eat poultry products smelling or tasting like fish,” so by feeding chickens chia seeds, you can boost their omega-3 levels without turning the meat into funky chicken. But, again: Does it have any special benefits? People trying to sell you chia seeds make all sorts of claims, but to “definitively establish their actual beneficial effects,” we need a little something called “scientific evidence instead of cultural traditions, personal beliefs, or even inaccurate advertising,” a redundant term if I’ve ever heard one.įor example, if you look on YouTube, you’ll find more than 50,000 videos on chia seeds and belly fat, but what does the science say? Apparently, dietary chia seeds do reduce belly fat…in rats. So, yes, it’s nutritious-like nearly any whole plant food. Chia seed has a lot of fiber, antioxidants (black chia seeds perhaps more than white), and plant protein, and also contains a lot of B vitamins and minerals. ![]() So…let’s slap on that health claims label!Ĭhia has been eaten for thousands of years, suggesting it’s at least safe to consume, but does it offer any special benefits? It’s certainly nutritious. In response to this, there has been a great deal of interest worldwide in…compounds originally present in plants to provide health benefits in foods.” Yes, but in hot dogs? And, indeed, “reformulated frankfurters with chia contained significantly greater amounts of proteins, insoluble dietary fiber, minerals….Given this nutritional profile, the products thus produced could qualify for labelling with a variety of nutrition and health claims.” And, what do you know? “Chia oil–enriched restructured pork” actually does affect “aged rats” fed bad diets. When recently reviewing the literature on the health-promoting properties and therapeutic applications of chia seeds, I ran into a lot of studies discussing, for example, “strategies for incorporation of chia ( Salvia hispanica L.) in frankfurters as a health-promoting ingredient.” After all, “recent years have seen increasing pursuit of healthier lifestyles, among them dietary habits. The secret to unlocking the benefits of chia seeds may be grinding them up. ![]()
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