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I found this study on the news this morning and was a bit miffed to be honest... I realise I don't have all the information from the study...there are questions I would want to ask but I thought it was interesting...
Fatty food affects brain's ability to control weight | Obesity
The article is entitled Fat affects brain's ability to control weight: study
OK so basically the researchers fed the mice a high fat diet....They found in 3 days that the mice were consuming 3 times their usual calories...
What I want to know is what else they were being fed too....
Personally and I have found that high carbs diets triggered an insatiable hunger in me that I would crave high carb high fat to fix (eg potato chips). As soon as I switched to low carb high fat ALL of my cravings and excessive hunger went away...For the first time in my life I am not controlled by a craving for food...
I know I am only one person but my own experience would directly contradict some of the findings of the study.
Not only am I craving free and hunger greatly reduced...but I have dropped lots of weight and would be lucky to make half the calories I used to eat.
The article goes on to liken the effect on the brain of a high fat diet to the healing brains of stroke victims. I guess the bit that scares me is at the bottom...here's the quote..
"If new medicines can be designed that limit neuron injury during overeating, they may be effective in combating the obesity epidemic," he said.
Is medication the only answer to the obesity epidemic...??
If a low fat diet was going to work wouldn't we see the effects in society with the last 30 years of low fat products on our shelves?
OK I've finished ranting... I wondered what others thought?
I found this study on the news this morning and was a bit miffed to be honest... I realise I don't have all the information from the study...there are questions I would want to ask but I thought it was interesting...
Fatty food affects brain's ability to control weight | Obesity
The article is entitled Fat affects brain's ability to control weight: study
OK so basically the researchers fed the mice a high fat diet....They found in 3 days that the mice were consuming 3 times their usual calories...
What I want to know is what else they were being fed too....
Personally and I have found that high carbs diets triggered an insatiable hunger in me that I would crave high carb high fat to fix (eg potato chips). As soon as I switched to low carb high fat ALL of my cravings and excessive hunger went away...For the first time in my life I am not controlled by a craving for food...
I know I am only one person but my own experience would directly contradict some of the findings of the study.
Not only am I craving free and hunger greatly reduced...but I have dropped lots of weight and would be lucky to make half the calories I used to eat.
The article goes on to liken the effect on the brain of a high fat diet to the healing brains of stroke victims. I guess the bit that scares me is at the bottom...here's the quote..
"If new medicines can be designed that limit neuron injury during overeating, they may be effective in combating the obesity epidemic," he said.
Is medication the only answer to the obesity epidemic...??
If a low fat diet was going to work wouldn't we see the effects in society with the last 30 years of low fat products on our shelves?
OK I've finished ranting... I wondered what others thought?