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