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Ask Adam: Is breakfast important? Salad AFTER dinner? Future of fake meat? (E15)

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Is It Better to Eat Your Salad First?

nutrition experts speculating that there might be some advantage to eating your harder to digest nutrients later in the meal. But as far as i can tell, that is just informed speculation. What has actually been researched in a couple of studies is how salad timing affects your eating behavior. There's a group of scientists at my almamater, pen state, who did a series of studies on this very question. About ten years ago their first dy found that people ate significantly fewer calories total in their meal if they started with a salad. And this makes intuitive sense, right? Salad is generally a higher fibre, lower calory food,. Unless you are drenching it in ranch dressing or some

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