Posted on 01/01/2010 7:06:35 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Anti-hunger aromas that make one feel full could help fight the global obesity epidemic, scientists now suggest.
Everyone is familiar with scents that arouse the appetite, as well as odors that turn the stomach. But apparently molecules that make up a food's aroma can also activate areas of the brain that trigger the feeling of fullness.
As people chew food, scents wafting up to the back of the nose from inside the mouth help quench the sensation of hunger, food technologist Rianne Ruijschop at NIZO Food Research in Ede, The Netherlands, and her colleagues found.
"These were quite unexpected results," Ruijschop told LiveScience. "Everyone was quite astonished and very energetic about them."
Variety of findings
Certain aromas, flavors and textures were especially effective at making people feel full.
Solid foods that required chewing and swallowing - thus offering a lingering release of aromas - proved more satiating than liquid foods.
When odors linked either with fat, carbohydrates or proteins were tested, adding scents linked with carbohydrates or protein significantly increased the feeling of fullness, perhaps because they suggest food is high in energy.
Complex aromas with multiple components were more filling than others with just one component. Complex aromas might tell the brain it's eating a variety of food and thus a large meal.
The size of food samples had an impact, as smaller bite sizes prolonged the amount of time in which odors could have an effect.
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How about not shoveling tons of crap into your face!!
How about just leaving out the glutamates and aspartame?
Google: Aspartame makes you hungry
100’s of pages of documentation of that. Diet drinks are sabotaged. As is any other ‘diet’ sweetner.
Recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Have been on low carbs for almost 2 weeks. Pounds are melting away. Blood glucose readings dropping. Feeling alive for the first time in a year.
Please, do not let any more scientists mess with our food supply. There is precious little that is safe to eat as it is.
TL
...so we ordered Chinese from the Lucky Dragon Takeout up the street."
>How about not shoveling tons of crap into your face!!
I told Oprah that but her face is so far up Obama’s ass she couldn’t hear me.
Q - Did you ever smell moth balls?
A - Did you hold him by the wings?
I’ve been eating so much delicious food the last couple weeks, but I’m starting to get full just looking at it. But that won’t last long.
The only way I am able to lose weight is with an extremely low carb diet. The problem for me though is loss of potassium. I have to supplement with 99mg three or four times a day while losing the weight.
I took my docs advice about 6 months ago and adopted a pretty much CAVEMAN diet.....dropped pounds, glucose levels, (87) Triglycerides down (57)....my total Cholesterol went up...but HDL (112) went up too...and what’s really weird is I was diagnosed with small Pattern B, dense, non-buyoant LDL a few years ago, and told I couldn’t do anything about it (hereditary)...now the report says I’m Pattern A LDL....???? PLUS....I’m hardly ever hungry anymore!
Welcome to the “whole foods” approach (not the store, the diet). I am one of the lucky who has an intolerance for aspartame and have avoided “diet” products most of my life. If I want low sugar, I eat half or use half. If I want sugar free I eat something without it. Same goes for fats. With vegetables and a decent piece of bread, I do OK.
As a drink by itself V-8 juice is not too bad. It used to be one of the free items on the Weight Watchers menu.
If you drink diet pop, best to do it with a meal, not by itself.
He makes me lose my appetite every time he opens his trap.
Low carb is the only thing that works for me, too.
Low carb is the only thing that works for me, too.
How about helping people who are looking for help?
Help, how?
You reminded me of a Far Side cartoon where cavemen are standing in line with trays and one says to the caveman in the chef's hat (standing in front of a freshly killed mammoth),
" Uh, let's see....I'll try the mammoth."
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