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