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dianec42 Why high protein diet fills us up
"Scientists believe they may have cracked the reason why protein-rich diets, such as Atkins, curb hunger.
They have discovered the diets spark glucose production in the small intestine - a phenomenon which leads to us feeling full. ..."
(They actually seem to have dug up some pro-Atkins people for once. Yay! 'Dr Simon Langley-Evans, an expert in human nutrition at Nottingham University, said: "Diets like Atkins do appear to promote weight loss because they stop hunger. ...' Usually these articles are full of protestations about how dangerous these diets are... never mind how much more dangerous it is to consume the amount of sugar that a typical American or Brit consumes...)
Yay for random and potentially useful knowledge. Although to quote the Straight Dope, "If half the ingenuity the Teeming Millions waste on trying to avoid dieting and exercise could be devoted to something constructive, we'd cure cancer in a week."
"Scientists believe they may have cracked the reason why protein-rich diets, such as Atkins, curb hunger.
They have discovered the diets spark glucose production in the small intestine - a phenomenon which leads to us feeling full. ..."
(They actually seem to have dug up some pro-Atkins people for once. Yay! 'Dr Simon Langley-Evans, an expert in human nutrition at Nottingham University, said: "Diets like Atkins do appear to promote weight loss because they stop hunger. ...' Usually these articles are full of protestations about how dangerous these diets are... never mind how much more dangerous it is to consume the amount of sugar that a typical American or Brit consumes...)
Yay for random and potentially useful knowledge. Although to quote the Straight Dope, "If half the ingenuity the Teeming Millions waste on trying to avoid dieting and exercise could be devoted to something constructive, we'd cure cancer in a week."
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Date: 2005-11-10 12:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-10 12:39 am (UTC)Lately I've been idly threatening to become a "fooditarian" -- if I can't tell what natural thing it came from, I'm not eating it. This is SUCH an idle threat though.
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Date: 2005-11-10 01:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-10 01:46 am (UTC)I'm intrigued by the "Neanderthin" diet, which is pretty much fooditarian: the key question for "am I allowed to eat this or not" is "Could I eat this if I were naked with a sharp stick on the savannah?"
Alas, I'm not hard-core enough to stick to that. I like my modern comfort foods too much. (... she said, taking another swig of diet Coke.)
See the above-referenced Straight Dope column for the argument in favor of exercise over diet, also. (More later, supposed to be working...)
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Date: 2005-11-10 01:52 am (UTC)I've been trying to get more excercise, but my exercise of choice is walking and I've been having knee problems. They seem to be getting better (it only took 8 months!) and I'm now trying to ramp up walking more. I find I get tired very quickly walking these days. Not winded, just sore-feet, heavy-limbed tuckered out.
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Date: 2005-11-10 05:27 am (UTC)(And as I'm turning 40 in a few days' time, you get a little sympathy on the 30 thing, but not much. (-:)
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Date: 2005-11-10 05:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-10 03:49 pm (UTC)