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 a mix. It’s quite easy to eat a very large amount of calorie-dense food before your body tells you to stop. Doing the opposite – eating bulky food without many calories, can temporarily satisfy you, but your body will still know it’s low on energy prompt you to eat soon after. Otherwise, those diets that are just drinking a bunch of low-cal “juice” would actually be effective and not torturous.
For your particular example, rice cakes are large and time consuming to eat, but they actually contain very little material. They’re mostly air. Vegetables will be more filling because they have lots of fiber rather than the starch in rice. Either way, most of the material has no calories (air in the rice cakes and water in the vegetables), but what’s holding it together matters.
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