According to a study published recently in The FASEB Journal , eating mushrooms contributes to weight loss and maintenance . The conclusions are based on an experiment carried out by researchers from the Blommberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University (USA) with almost a hundred obese adults who were replaced by the red meat they ate throughout the week with a cup of mushrooms daily. After a year applying this simple measure in the diet, the participants had lost an average of 3 and a half kilos more than the control group , and showed improvements in body composition, with a decrease of 0.85% in total body fat .
To this is added that the ingestion of mushrooms as a meat substitute allowed them to reduce their waist circumference by 6.6 centimeters , a measure that determines abdominal obesity, the most dangerous given that it indicates that there is an accumulation of fat around the the viscera.
