5 Satiety Ingredients for Weight Management
As motivated as dieters are each year, many find it challenging to keep up with their weight-loss diet or quit altogether for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is feeling hungry.
Each year, an estimated 45 million Americans diet and spend $33 billion on weight-loss products.(1) Despite this investment, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 1.9 billion adults worldwide are overweight, including 70% of American adults. Overweight and obesity rates have more than doubled, with overweight and obesity now linked to more deaths globally than being underweight (malnourished). Associated health risks include of overweight and obesity include heart disease, stroke, diabetes, osteoarthritis, and even some cancers, among others.(2)
Many people want to lose weight. A recent study found that reasons overweight and obese people want to lose weight fall into three broad categories: 1) 50% of the participants cited improved health as their number-one reason for wanting to lose weight, followed by 2) appearance, and 3) mood.(3) Yet, as motivated as dieters are each year, many find it challenging to keep up with their weight-loss diet or quit altogether for a number of reasons. One of those reasons is feeling hungry.(4)
“I think the satiety category is a great idea because there are so many possible causes for why people have struggles with their weight, and feeling satiated is definitely one of them,” says Dave Foreman, RPh, ND. “Being satiated means you feel full, but at the same time there are other things that contribute to what makes you feel full, and that could be health issues like low blood sugar that would make you feel hungry. Satiety is important in the supplement industry with regards to overall health care, not just weight loss.”
When seeking ingredients that can support the satiety arm of weight management, Foreman adds that, “As for each individual ingredient, there needs to be a good body of evidence with science on humans that clinically validates their true effectiveness on people, and substantiates claims that are made on it.” With that in mind, here are five ingredients that may help.
References:
1. The Boston Medical Center 2017, https://www.bmc.org/nutrition-and-weight-management/weight-management
2. WHO http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs311/en/
3. O’Brien K et al., “Reasons for wanting to lose weight: different strokes for different folks,” Eating Behaviors, vol. 8, no. 1 (January 2007): 132-135
4. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, “Hate to Diet? It’s How We’re Wired.” April 27, 2015. http://www.hhmi.org/news/hate-to-diet-its-how-we-are-wired
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