Surprising Benefits Of Soups For Underweight People !!

SURPRISING BENEFITS OF SOUP FOR UNDERWEIGHT PEOPLE

Soup is an appetizer .The western meal starts with warm soup and bread. Hot soup in cold weather warms the body and provides essential nutrients.

What is soup?  

Soup is a liquid dish which may contain grated vegetable chicken and spices to add taste, it is generally served hot

Type of soups

Broth – here the liquid is served without vegetable, chicken or fish. Although during the preparation they are heated in the liquid such that nutrient from chicken, vegetable, and fish remain in the liquid

Potage –liquid is boiled with vegetable, chicken, and fish, it is boiled until the liquid thicken

Bisques – These are heavy creamy soups, where sea fish especially the shellfish are used during preparation,

What is underweight?

People with balanced fat, muscle mass and also has body mass index between 19 to 24.5 kg/ m2 considered healthy. When the body mass index fall below 18.5 kg/m2 and the body has severe deficiency of fat, protein and minerals are consider to be underweight

There are 3 classes

       Underweight BMI (18.5 to 16 kg/m2)

       Severely underweight BMI ( 16 to 15 kg/m2)

       Very severely underweight BMI (below 15 kg/ m2)

How soup treats underweight?

Soup play vital role to pull out the nutrients , vitamins,and natural protein in underweight individual and promote natural weight gain and growth.

Type of soups which can be frequently consumed during malnourishment or underweight

1 .Low Carbohydrate high protein soup–soup like sea fish , egg ) gives more protein to the meal ,

2.High fat high fiber soup– It certain disease like fever, ulcer , convulsion , where good fat should be introduced along with high fiber .Like shrimp soup with vegetable , fish soup , creamy soup , it provides more poly unsaturated fatty acid and fiber which help in fat storage in the body

3. Low consistency soup – In certain situation of malnourishment where body cannot digest complex carbohydrate or unable to absorb nutrients. In that case food with thick nutritional consistency should be replaced with more light palatable liquid. It has lower osmolarity.
4. High consistency soup –This soup have higher consistency and have more vitamins and minerals, which aids during diarrhea, cholera and vomiting, where severe weight loss is noted

.

How it help underweight patient                   

1 .liquid consistency makes it easily absorbed and gives more essential minerals

2. Too old and younger underweight patient without denture can have soup where they don’t require smashing the food with teeth
3. Soup has high fiber which aid in facial movement, also evacuates toxic food and makes space for essential foods.
4. Soup contain high protein like egg yolk or chicken or mutton liver which help in muscle building
5. High fat warm soup prevent weight loss due in extreme cold temperature
6. Soup has more fluid part so it moistures body and help to rehydrate and maintain the water balance to underweight people.

The soup plays an important role for underweight patient for its multi beneficiary qualities.