| A Paris-based pharmaceutical company has unveiled | | | | only make you eat more.The bottom line here is that |
| an experimental new drug to combat obesity. The | | | | you don't need drugs to suppress your appetite. All |
| drug is, according to preliminary research data, a | | | | you need is the knowledge to make better informed |
| powerful appetite suppressant. Prescribe it to patients, | | | | food choices and avoid all processed carbohydrates. |
| the thinking goes, and they'll automatically eat less. | | | | This means absolutely no cookies, crackers, breads, |
| Sounds good at first, but here's the real story on | | | | baked goods, pasta, and so on. Do this and your |
| appetite suppressants and prescription drugs.Appetite | | | | appetite will fall on its own. You'll automatically eat less, |
| suppressants initially seem to be a promising strategy | | | | lose weight, and save a fortune by avoiding |
| for weight loss. By taking a prescription drug or an | | | | prescription drugs. It's almost like following a low-carb |
| herbal supplement, the body will theoretically shut down | | | | diet, except you can have all the fruits and vegetables |
| its hunger and automatically eat less. As a result, the | | | | you want, as long as they're eaten in their raw form |
| person will drop excess body fat and experience a | | | | and not processed (orange juice, for example, would |
| steady decline in all the obesity-related risk factors: | | | | be a no-no).All of this doesn't mean appetite |
| diabetes, heart disease, stroke, and so on. It all sounds | | | | suppressant drugs and diet pills won't be successful in |
| great at first, but a closer look at the complex | | | | the marketplace: most people would rather take a |
| relationship between people and their foods reveals | | | | shortcut to losing weight if there's one available. But |
| that this approach is only minimally successful, at | | | | here's why the drugs won't work very well: even if |
| best.Here's why: appetite is actually stimulated by the | | | | your appetite is artificially reduced by the drugs, your |
| consumption of processed foods and refined | | | | body will keep on craving until it gets the nutrients it |
| carbohydrates. When a person drinks a soft drink, eats | | | | needs. If you don't supplement your diet with whole |
| a donut, or consumes refined white sugar, the resulting | | | | food and superfood supplements (like chlorella and |
| swings in blood sugar cause a hunger spike to arise a | | | | spirulina) that provide superior nutrition, your body will |
| few hours later. Hunger signals are further | | | | be in a never-ending state of nutrient deficiency, and |
| strengthened when a person suffers from common | | | | turning off the hunger signals will be all but impossible, |
| nutritional deficiencies (virtually all Americans are | | | | no matter how powerful the drug.So a person on |
| deficient in zinc, vitamin D, various B vitamins, | | | | appetite suppressing drugs will only succeed if they |
| magnesium and other important nutrients). After years | | | | take an active role in their own nutrition by consuming |
| of experimentation, and after spending hundreds of | | | | superfoods and avoiding refined carbohydrates. And if |
| dollars on various appetite suppressants (discussed | | | | they do that, they don't need the drugs in the first |
| below), I have come to the conclusion that the very | | | | place. In effect, the drugs are really just hype, and they |
| best way to control appetite is to avoid refined | | | | don't represent a reasonable approach to reducing |
| carbohydrates and get superior nutrition from whole | | | | obesity. Or, to summarize this entire article in one |
| food supplements. I've tried all the "natural" appetite | | | | phrase: it's the food choice, stupid! Choose the wrong |
| suppressants: hoodia, jojoba, green tea, fiber | | | | foods on a regular basis, and all the drugs in the world |
| supplements and so on. None come even close to the | | | | won't make you thin. But choose the right foods at |
| appetite suppressing power of simply avoiding all | | | | every meal, and you'll be thin without needing |
| refined carbohydrates such as white bread, rice, flour, | | | | drugs.Copyright 2006 Truth PublishingMike Adams, |
| high fructose corn syrup, sugars, tortillas, cereals and | | | | "The Health Ranger," is chief contributor and editor of |
| so on.The only carbohydrates that don't trigger | | | | the NewsTarget Network, a leading independent news |
| subsequent hunger are whole grains such as quinoa or | | | | source for natural health, nutrition, medicine and other |
| boiled whole grain kamut, for example. Everything else | | | | wellness topics. NewsTarget and are leading |
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| Cream of Wheat, is a strong appetite stimulant that will | | | | independent information on natural health and nutrition. |