[yorkiesmiles]

I was trying to find a list I had on foods that cut down on need for sweets & curbing hunger. But I could find something I had cut out of the paer sometime back. Although I know salsa was one of those & I have done this several times - tomatoes are good for you & the salsa does take way that desire for sweets.

I found this on usaweekend.com:

7 healthful new findings A roundup of the latest research from the food frontier

1. Potatoes: best at beating hunger. What food is most effective at shutting down hunger? Potatoes, reports a new Australian study. Of 38 foods tested, plain boiled potatoes were the best "diet food," creating the greatest sense of fullness (satiety) in 41 subjects. The next most filling, in order: fish, oatmeal, oranges, apples, brown pasta.

In snacks, popcorn was the hunger-suppressing winner, far better than ice cream, peanuts, chips and candy. The worst food tested? Croissants.

Fatty, sugary foods were least likely to curb hunger, and spurred a greater calorie intake two hours later. High-fiber foods were the top hunger suppressors.

Nutrition profile:
1/2 cup boiled potato

Folic acid -- 7mcg
Sodium -- 4mg
Calcium. -- 6mg
Potassium -- 256mg
Magnesium -- 15mg
Calories -- 67
Protein -- 1.3g
Carbohydrate. -- 15g
Fat -- 0.1g
Vitamin C -- 6mg


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The clear message, according to the researchers: To curb your eating, select foods with built-in hunger controls.

2. Meat: Cook on low heat. Eating lots of fried meat increases the risk of kidney cancer, according to a large international study conducted by Swedish investigators. Cooking meat with high heat, as in frying, causes potent carcinogens to form. It's better to slowly roast or stew meat at low temperatures, or microwave it. Also, eating lots of meat and little fruit can raise your odds of pancreatic cancer about 25 percent, Italian researchers report. Meat equaled smoking in promoting the cancer. Eating lots of produce, particularly orange and dark green vegetables, lowered the risk of kidney cancer.

3. Cheese: Less serious heart hazard? Serge Renaud, the French researcher who first credited red wine for less heart disease in France, now says cheese is not as hazardous as believed. Cheese isn't linked to high rates of heart disease the way fatty milk, cream and butter are, even though all such dairy foods are laden with artery-clogging saturated fat, Renaud's new research finds. When milk is fermented to make cheese and yogurt, Renaud contends, calcium salts are formed, inhibiting intestinal absorption of the bad fat. But he cautions: Don't go overboard with cheese; eat it sparingly, as Mediterranean people do.

4. Tea: a strong stroke-fighter. Tea drinkers have a lower risk of stroke, reports a new study of 552 Dutch men, ages 50-69. Men who daily drank about 5 cups of black tea (the tea most Americans drink) were 69 percent less likely to suffer a stroke than men who drank half as much, says the 15-year government research in the Netherlands. Researchers credited tea's antioxidants called flavonoids, which possibly discourage the formation of stroke-triggering clots. Previously, the researchers found a 50 percent reduced risk of fatal heart attacks in men who drank more than 2 cups of black tea daily.

5. Honey: the sweetest laxative. Athens University researchers fed honey (doses of 1.5 to 3.5 ounces) to healthy Greeks. Ten hours later, nine of 20 volunteers reported a laxative effect. Likely reason: Many people can't fully absorb sugars in honey, mainly fructose. Researchers declared honey a mild laxative. It's not advised for those with irritable bowel syndrome.

6. Fish Oil: good heart medicine. In a year-long study of 610 patients, Norwegian researchers found that 4,000mg of fish oil (omega-3 fatty acids) daily boosted the odds of keeping vein grafts open after coronary bypass surgery by 18 percent. In subjects with hypertension, daily fish oil lowered blood pressure a few points. The amount of fish oil used in the studies is found in 10 ounces of salmon.

7. Onions: May shield you from stomach cancer. Eating half an onion daily might reduce your risk of stomach cancer by about 50 percent, according to a large new Dutch study. Onions' antioxidants, such as quercetin, may help neutralize carcinogens. Yellow and red onions have more antioxidants than white.