jojobean wrote:
also beware of the label "natrual flavors" and "artifical flavors". These are not flavors at all, but the FDA allows them as a label for thousands of different chemicals which turn off "full"recptors to the brain, and increase appitite and some are highly addictive. If you dont believe me...try this experiement. eat 2 big bags of doritos...and you will notice that you are even hungryier than before you ate them and you have no sensation of being full. Now the next day, eat something like meat and veggies in the same proprtions as those doritios and see how full you are then. You will be stuffed to the gills.
Its the chemicals that cause junk food to be irristable.
ALso if you go off of junk food and eat only fresh foods, no prepared foods, you will notice a withdrawl that will last for about a week.
When asked about the safety of these chemicals, the author of the book I read on it...I forgot the name, but a quick brose though an organic co-op library and you will find it.
He asked the FDA agent "if you put any one of these chemicals in a glass of water...would you drink it." The person from the FDA after a long pause, said "no." I wish I remebered the name of the book...it is a worthwhile read, but my memory fails me since it was so long ago that I read it.
That is just health-awareness hype and should be taken with a grain of salt; as it is all theory.
The research-backed reason for the above phenomena would be that it is not related to those flavoring additives; It is one's body's natural response of insulin and re-balancing the sugar levels in your system. Eating slow-digesting starches from vegetables will not give the same effect as glucose-tolerance-test-like blast eating two bags of doritoes will do.
With quick-digesting glucose-sources, you insulin response will be harsher and your blood glucose levels will go way down. Thus you will feel weird for a while till you body regains its balance and brings back your glucose levels up again. Following alongside this is the response to ghrelin, which is suppressed right after eating simple carbs, but relapses higher than initially (making you hungrier than before). [ghrelin, in simplest terms, makes you feel hungry]
EDIT: I made the ghrelin sound like a tangent; but it is actually the more significant factor here.
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