The Nutritional Benefit of Soup

Soup has a lot of nutritional benefit but like most foods there are good soups and bad soups. We need to understand what constitutes a good soup and how it benefits us.

Why Water is an Important Element of Soup

Good soups incorporate water, which is both healthy and filling. Everyone needs to have more water intake. Our bodies are made up of 55-70% water. It takes water to flush waste and deliver nutrients to other parts of our body.

We also need to flush out all kinds of toxins, which can make us feel bad. When our bodies are loaded with toxins it doesn't perform up to par. Professional athletes of all kinds watch their diets carefully so that toxins don't build up and ruin there performance on the field of play.

As we put food into our stomach valuable nutrients are absorbed in our blood stream. Without these nutrients we get pains, fall asleep at strange times and just feel lousy.

Drinking water makes us look younger as we hydrate more our skin looks softer. So water in soup helps us in many ways.

Helps Build Your Immune System

According to Dr.Mao's soup therapy, good soups are cooked slowly to leach out the therapeutic qualities of the soup's ingredients and capture the nutritious goodness of the soup itself.

When we use vegetables such as cabbage, leaks, carrots, ginger, onions, mushrooms, or seaweeds we enhance the soups therapeutic value to help our bodies resist sickness and strengthen our systems, which make us alert and healthy.

Perhaps you remember your mother always feeding you chicken soup when you were sick as a child. Now you know why, it makes you feel better and heal quicker.

Helps Us Lose Weight

Good soups are low in calories and help us to lose weight without feeling hungry. Water helps us to have that feeling of being full without wanting to snack or increase our caloric count in other ways.

Soup is one part of a diet but it can be helpful as part of an overall strategy to lose weight.

Good soups are also low in sodium. Sodium or salt helps us to retain water therefore reducing its flushing qualities.

If you like to cook, home made soup is the best tasting and most nutritious of all. Just the thought of home made soup warms the cookles of my heart.

Soups Keep Us Feeling Warm and Hearty

Soup gives us a great warm feeling when eaten on cold winter days. I have been known to eat soup for breakfast because of its calming and soothing properties. I also know that soup is healthy especially ones that are made with chicken or vegetable broth that contain lots of vegetables and pasta.

When I warm up soup for lunch at work or at home, people seem to come out of the woodwork wanting to know what I am eating. They smell the goodness and it creates a desire in all of us to stay warm and healthy.

Source: http://preview1.health.sp1.yahoo.com/experts/drmao/23125/soup-therapy-detoxify-lose-weight-and-boost-immunity/