For example, if I eat a small steak with 500 calories, will I feel full for longer than if I ate 10 rice cakes with 30 calories each?
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It’s mostly about the actual density, size and composition of the food and not as much the caloric content.
Rice cakes are mostly air and the actual food material is much more quickly digested compared to the protein of a steak. The steak should leave you more full for longer, though obviously every body is slightly different.
In generap though, the stomach can only judge fullness by physical volume, not calories. Calories aren’t a real thing, it’s a measurement system we invented to judge energy density.
This is why calorically-dense food is an issue, we never evolved to deal with it. Because our stomachs only evaluate based on physical volume, we can eat significantly more calories than we should because three chocolate bars has about the same weight as a whole bowl of salad so our stomach treats them as the same even though the former has way more calories.
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