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Post by julienc on Mar 24, 2010 10:00:31 GMT -5
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Post by CJSculpts on Mar 24, 2010 13:46:01 GMT -5
Ewwwwww... Just for kicks, I checked out a link in one of the comments. (I just scanned it for now I will return for a more thorough read later.) arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/03/does-high-fructose-corn-syrup-make-you-fatter.ars It discusses potential flaws in the study and has a link to the full study. "One idea that that's been proposed is that fructose doesn't induce the same sense of satiation that glucose does, meaning that we're less likely to stop eating after we've ingested sufficient calories. " This was very interesting to me because, for most of my life, I did not have clear tummy signals of being full or even of being hungry. At some point I learned that I was hungry if I started to get light-headed and spacey. Duh. I was a pretty skinny kid (not that I realized that at the time) so eating like a linebacker did not adversely affect me. As I have gotten more and more sick over the past decade plus, I have started having more "normal" feelings of hunger & satiety. In the year before I started the low fructose diet, I was marveling at how often I was actually feeling hunger despite eating a pretty healthy, balanced diet, if not an excessive diet. In the first month or so after starting the f diet, I was ravenous to the point of tears. I was especially craving carbs, downing potato chips (which I would have avoided previously as being "unhealthy") like Cookie Monster eating his cookies. I also seemed to always be covered in a light dusting of Pixie Stix powder from consuming like an addict. ;D More recently, I have adjusted my diet so that I have grits almost every morning. I am not sure if it is the early consumption of carbs or ridding my diet of fructose almost 95-100% but it dawned on me about two weeks ago that I had been having my original (lack of) feelings for the most part. I was going to post to see if anyone else was like this and I figured that this was the perfect opportunity. Yes, still no official Dx...doc T says a few more day now...  |
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Post by charlie on Mar 25, 2010 3:33:24 GMT -5
That's an interesting point. Megs has to be told to eat. She rarely raids the cupboard herself and often I will have to plonk food in front of her as I know she is due a feed. Most kids seem to come home from school and raid the food cupboard but not her. She will then pig out on a large packet of crisps (chips to you Americans!!!) and often will eat a huge evening meal if she likes the food. she is on a very low fructose diet, hardly any glucose and no wheat still at the moment.
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