9 Foods That Have the Same Effect as Weight-Loss Drugs

Eatthis ^ | 11/15/2024 | Gillean Barkyoumb, MS, RDN

[ChicagoConservative27]

Weight-loss drugs like Ozempic have gained popularity recently for their ability to support weight loss, which can mostly be attributed to their appetite-suppressing effects. Ozempic is in a class of drugs called GLP-1 receptor agonists, which mimic the hormone GLP-1. This slows down gastric emptying and sends signals of fullness to the brain. Basically, this means food stays in the stomach longer and tells the brain that you are full and don't need more food. This leads to less calorie consumption and, eventually, weight loss.

[Uncle Miltie]

Ate eggs, apples and leafy greens today.

[Fiji Hill]

Mares eat oats and does eat oats...

...and little lambs eat ivy.
A kid will eat ivy too. Wouldn't you?

[Fiji Hill]

Doctor Johnson proposed to define the word ‘oats’ thus: ‘A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.’ And I replied: ‘Aye, and that’s why England has such fine horses, and Scotland such fine people.’

Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies:
But, if ye wish her gratefu prayer,
Gie her a Haggis!

(Old Scotland wants no watery stuff,
That splashes in small wooden dishes;
But if you wish her grateful prayer,
Give her [Scotland] a Haggis!)

--Robert Burns

[metmom]

I also put turnips in the beef barley soup.

Mr mm didn’t even know for years. He didn’t know they weren’t potatoes.

Great for someone watching their carbs.

[SauronOfMordor]

“ I like sardines. But not that much.”

That’s the point. Only eat food you don’t like.

[grame]

I used to hide grated carrots in my spaghetti sauce. No one knew it until they were much older. LoL.

[Buttons12]

I essentially live on oatmeal because of food sensitivities. No, oats will NOT make you fat.

Unless there's some leftover pizza, I'll take oats for breakfast. Love the taste so much, I don't put anything on them except water. No milk, fruit, or sugar, just water. Hungry after sunset -- oats! I weigh about 97 pounds, nothing to worry about when one is just 60 inches high. Fixing a bowl of oats in the microwave takes 45 seconds, another benefit :) Eggs are more nutritious but I haven't the patience in the morning. You have to keep an eye on eggs.

[Bearshouse]

I used to hide grated carrots in my spaghetti sauce.

I did the same with meat loaf. Kids still don't know.

[metmom]

I knew someone who did that with all her extra garden zucchini.

[metmom]

I put salt in mine. Since my diet is so restricted, I need to since I have no other good source of sodium.

[metmom]

Oats 101: Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods/oats

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

I have hypoglycemia (opposite of diabetes) so blood sugar is very low in the morning and only what I eat (controlled carbs) can control that. So for breakfast I regularly have eggs (omelet style) with only fresh spinach inside, and a dusting of dried basil on top (because I love the taste of basil). A couple of times a week I instead have plain oatmeal (Bob’s Red Mill whole grain rolled oats) with about a half cup of blueberries on top. That seems to satisfy the blood sugar problem and builds up to normal by 10:00. And if I don’t have time for lunch some days, I’m not hungry, and grabbing an apple will do. My downfall is loving breads and pasta at dinner time……sigh

[Vaduz]

Some foods have traces amounts of nicotine in them aka everything in moderation huh.

Even lima bean have arsenic in them who knew.

[metmom]

In don’t find oats to have quite that much staying power.

[Go_Raiders]

Wheat makes your gut leak. Much of the toxins from your leaking gut get encapsulated in abdominal fat as a defense mechanism. The toxins not captured also contribute to systemic inflammation which damages just about every critical system in your body.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25734566/

Wheat would be banned for human consumption in any rational civilization.

[metmom]

Wheat today is not the same as the wheat of yesteryear.

I’ve read up on it and the changes in it through breeding have ruined it.

If we ate the wheat of long ago, I doubt it would be as much a problem.

[T Ruth]

Nice poetry -- but:

If you’re in the US then you won’t be able to buy a traditional haggis as it has been banned in the country since the 1970s. It became illegal to import haggis from Scotland in 1971 as there was a sanction on food containing Sheep lungs which constitutes a large portion of the traditional Haggis recipe.

According to a report by iNews it’s known that Americans “can’t even make their own haggis as US-produced foods containing sheep lungs are also prohibited.” Joelle Hayden who works for the US Department of Agriculture, the Food Safety and Inspection Service, confirmed that the ban exists as they “determine sheep lungs to be inedible and, therefore, cannot be utilised for human consumption.”

[Weirdad]

If you also have leg hairs that attract the little black kids at a pool where you eat corn pops for breakfast, then you can someday be president—you already have the daily ice cream part going.

[Fiji Hill]

I've had plenty of haggis, but it might have used a substitute for sheep lungs. If one is determined to use sheep lungs, they may be available under the counter at a halal butcher shop down in Anaheim.

[Verginius Rufus]

Entry for "oats" in Samuel Johnson's dictionary:

OATS--A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.