Thread: BBC--"Why high protein diet fills us up"

BBC Report on why high protein diets fill us up

Snippets:

They have discovered the diets spark glucose production in the small intestine - a phenomenon which leads to us feeling full.

and

The INSERM team found that feeding rats a high protein diet significantly increased the activity of genes involved in glucose production in the animal's small intestine.

This led to increased glucose production, which was sensed by the liver, and relayed to the brain, causing the animals to cut their food intake.

Actually, I've always puzzled over the preoccupation of researchers with "appetite." As if being hungry is the reason people eat--or being full is the reason they stop.

Those signals have NEVER been functional in my life, as far as I can tell. My past behavior: eat when it's "time" to eat, eat what looks good--and as much of it as there is. Happily, I never feel hungry on LC. But learning to make good food choices and quantity measurements is far more important than being hungry or not for shaping my successful behavior.

And there's always emotional eating...NOT driven by physical hunger at all.

Originally Posted by bkloots

And there's always emotional eating...NOT driven by physical hunger at all.

That's me!

But on a normal day I am very happy that I do not have the hunger that I have had on so many other programs.