Create a Smaller Appetite
Keeping Your Carb Low Glycemic May Lead to Less Food
Researchers say they think they now understand why low glycemic carbohydrate diets can be more effective than others: restricting high glycemic carbohydrates appears to also restrict
Create a Smaller Appetite
Keeping Your Carb Low Glycemic May Lead to Less Food
Researchers say they think they now understand why low glycemic carbohydrate diets can be more effective than others: restricting high glycemic carbohydrates appears to also restrict overall appetites. In a study of 10 people whose eating habits were monitored very closely during a three week hospital stay, scientists discovered that, when the patients ate fewer high glycemic carbohydrates they also tended to want less food overall.
Here's The Overview:
- The small study involved just 10 volunteers who were confined to hospital for three weeks so that every calorie they consumed and expended could be measured.
- It revealed that high glycemic carbohydrates eaten by the volunteers - potatoes, bread and cakes - stimulated their appetite so they ate more of other foods as well.
- When the carbs were restricted, consumption of other foods fell as well, even though the volunteers were free to eat anything else they wanted.
- Over the three weeks of the study the average daily consumption fell by a third from 3111 calories a day to 2164 calories, when access to potatoes, bread and cakes was restricted.
- The volunteers, who were obese and had diabetes, lost 4.2 pounds on average.
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