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