Atkins Diet

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Interesting snippet in the Independent today.

A recent study suggests that the reason for the success of the Atkins
Diet is because eating carbohydrates actually stimulates appetite so
curbing carbs reduces overall appetite.

And I thought it was just down to marketing...

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Roger <[email hidden]> wrote :

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Interesting snippet in the Independent today.

A recent study suggests that the reason for the success of the Atkins
Diet is because eating carbohydrates actually stimulates appetite so
curbing carbs reduces overall appetite.

The last I heard was that protein reduces the appetite. This was from, I think
it was, the Horizon programme.

Certainly, I do seem to feel hungry after eating rice. I noticed this long
before the recent publicity on Atkins.

Daytona

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Interesting snippet in the Independent today.

A recent study suggests that the reason for the success of the Atkins
Diet is because eating carbohydrates actually stimulates appetite so
curbing carbs reduces overall appetite.

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The last I heard was that protein reduces the appetite. This was from,
I think
it was, the Horizon programme.

ISTR that the argument was that protein satisfies the appetite rather
than reduces it. However the 2 ideas are not mutually exclusive so could
perhaps both be correct.

I think the way that the Atkins diet is presented - eat as much fat as
you like as long as you don't eat carbohydrates - is essentially false.
If the latest research is correct then all one needs to do is cut down
on the carbs and the appetite is automatically reduced.

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Certainly, I do seem to feel hungry after eating rice. I noticed this long
before the recent publicity on Atkins.

It used to be a standing joke that half an hour after eating a chinese
meal you felt the need for another.

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Certainly, I do seem to feel hungry after eating rice. I noticed this long
before the recent publicity on Atkins.

It used to be a standing joke that half an hour after eating a chinese
meal you felt the need for another.

True, I'd forgotten about that.
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Roger <[email hidden]> wrote :

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ISTR that the argument was that protein satisfies the appetite rather
than reduces it. However the 2 ideas are not mutually exclusive so could
perhaps both be correct.

I almost certainly remembered incorrectly

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It used to be a standing joke that half an hour after eating a chinese
meal you felt the need for another.

lol! I'd forgotten that one !

Daytona

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Certainly, I do seem to feel hungry after eating rice. I noticed this long
before the recent publicity on Atkins.

It used to be a standing joke that half an hour after eating a chinese
meal you felt the need for another.

True, I'd forgotten about that.

Usually ascribed to MSG(*), though...

(*) Now believed to trigger a fifth taste sensation, in addition to the
accepted sweetness, bitterness, saltiness, and sourness. Christened
"umami", which roughly translates as moreish.

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person simeon <[email hidden]> said

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Ever seen a fat rice eating Chinese person?

This is probably not unrelated to the fact they don't have that much
rice to eat.

The 'haven't got enough calories' diet works (too well) for a whole
bunch of the world's population. 8<,

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On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:10:24 +0000, John Laird <[email hidden]>
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| Usually ascribed to MSG(*), though...

and Soy Sauce which contains glutamates.
Glutamates are also found in other brewed sauces, fish sauce, Worcester
sauce etc. etc.

| (*) Now believed to trigger a fifth taste sensation, in addition to the
| accepted sweetness, bitterness, saltiness, and sourness. Christened
| "umami", which roughly translates as moreish.

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Dave Fawthrop said:

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:10:24 +0000, John Laird <[email hidden]>
wrote:

| Usually ascribed to MSG(*), though...

and Soy Sauce which contains glutamates.
Glutamates are also found in other brewed sauces, fish sauce, Worcester
sauce etc. etc.

Yes, and some protein-rich foods common in Oriental cuisine are also
believed to stimulate the same taste buds. From a personal point of view, I
would blame the MSG as the amount of soy sauce I add is minimal, if any, and
I've *seen* those videos of chefs ladling in the glutamate a tablespoon at a
time... Actually, I don't really suffer from the need-another-meal
syndrome.

Now, having researched this, I'm off to find some blue food dye, punch hole
reinforcements and a magnifying glass, to see how sensitive my tongue is !

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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:23:35 +0000, John Laird <[email hidden]>
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| Now, having researched this, I'm off to find some blue food dye, punch hole
| reinforcements and a magnifying glass, to see how sensitive my tongue is !

Do you have a URL for that?

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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:23:35 +0000, John Laird <[email hidden]>
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| Now, having researched this, I'm off to find some blue food dye, punch hole
| reinforcements and a magnifying glass, to see how sensitive my tongue is !

Do you have a URL for that?

Amongst many others:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/articles/senses/tongue_experiment.shtml

I have never liked cabbage, sprouts, etc. and I am also ambivalent about
coffee. Taking these together might suggest I have (through my genes) the
ability to taste a couple of chemicals usually known by the acronyms PTC and
PROP. Apparently, these taste very bitter. Or they don't taste of anything
at all ;-) So-called "supertasters" are reckoned to be likely to detect
them, as well as having more taste buds than the genetic norm.

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It used to be a standing joke that half an hour after eating a chinese
meal you felt the need for another.

True, I'd forgotten about that.

Yeah, you often feel hungry after being sick :-)
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I have never liked cabbage, sprouts, etc

I always think sprouts have a metallic taste.

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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:42:21 +0000, Geoff Berrow <[email hidden]>

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I have never liked cabbage, sprouts, etc

I always think sprouts have a metallic taste.

You can taste something in them, too. I used to assume I was just fussy,
and now it turns out to be literally the case. If we could hardly discern
any taste chemicals, we could all eat anything.

The only thing on the similarly bitter list that I do like is grapefruit.
In fact, I can eat a grapefruit in segments, like an orange. But to me that
just tastes sour or acidic, not bitter.

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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:42:21 +0000, Geoff Berrow <[email hidden]>
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| I noticed that Message-ID: <[email hidden]>
| from John Laird contained the following:
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| >I have never liked cabbage, sprouts, etc
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| I always think sprouts have a metallic taste.

Taste and smell which are the same thing, is/are a highly individual thing
which depend(s) in part on your genetics and in part on what you were fed
when you were a child and partly on your sex. Grandma's food always
tastes great.

So blame your parents for everything.

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Taste and smell which are the same thing,

Only in so far as both are chemosensory. But they are different parts
of a chemosensory system:

Taste/tongue/chemicals in solution/narrow range of tastes
Smell/nose/volatile chemicals/wide range of odours

Incorrectly, flavour and taste are often used interchangeably but:

Flavour = taste + odour

The odour contribution to flavour is increased by chewing which releases
voltiles into the air space continuous with the nasal cavity.

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http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume10/v10i6/opera-10-6.pdf

As performed on Monday night in this very Laboratory as is.

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Tony Buckley said:

http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume10/v10i6/opera-10-6.pdf

As performed on Monday night in this very Laboratory as is.

Any questions?

T.
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What would the Atkins approved alternative to covering in chocolate
prior to feeding to the lesbians?

Richard Webb

RJ Webb wrote

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What would the Atkins approved alternative to covering in chocolate
prior to feeding to the lesbians?

From the end of the opera, coffee...

T.