random diet news
Nov. 9th, 2005 02:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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."
