I'm stuffed! Now What's for dessert?
Fast forward to Sunday evening. Are you prepared and ate a super healthyMeal at home: baked salmon with herbs, steam broccoli, lemon and brown rice. It was delicious, and you feel completely happy and satisfied with yourself to eat so well. But how clean are found, they eat the remains of the birthday cake, which somehow found its way into your home. Before you know it, the cake is gone, and now filled. What happened to your sound * Dinner? Why did not you satisfied?
Are these scenarios ring true with you? Why do we want dessertIf we simply ate enough calories theory encourages us to today? Why a "balanced" dinner should send it directly in the cookie jar?
In fact, a fascinating scientific explanation, rates of this problem that has vexed us light years. It 'all very rational, if one understands the concept of "sensory-specific satiety."
sa ti n • • • ty and the rule of full or satisfied with the point of satisfaction and satiety.
Satiety isan area of the brain controls the hypothalamus. "Control Center" is sensitive) to taste (sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent. If you're tired of the taste, the appetite for another taste remains. This is sensory-specific satiety.
As humans, we have this monitoring mechanism is in need, so if we are looking for food and hunting for food in nature. (In other words, long before the super-stores like Wegmans and Whole Foods.) In the WildOur ancestors did not know whether a food is "safe" (ie, not) kill, until you try. So if you are a food source that was found, tended to stay with him. So, we like to know! However, our nutritional needs are not met by the consumption of food alone, and so we vary our diet. According to David Katz, MD, an expert in nutrition and preventive medicine, sensory-specific satiety is that it encourages us to eat a varied diet. This mechanism is very useful to balance our desire to remainwith family, and eat the same food all the time. Sensory-specific satiety can help us achieve this balance through the promotion of our senses, we meet all tastes.
We are not the first company to know which one. Oriental Medicine (OM) has understood this for thousands of years. Sharon Crowell, L.Ac., M.Ac. an acupuncture license in Herndon, VA, said that "In view of organic food have an opinion about the impact of food on the body since it was launched. summarizes ONthese effects into four categories, or properties – temperature, taste, service and action. A healthy diet is based, is a balanced mix of different foods on these properties. "
How all this to explain that the chocolate mousse filling hors d'oeuvres and a great entrée? Crowell said that the desire for a particular taste (in this case, desserts), there is an imbalance – or a lack of taste in food, or an excess of a second taste(eg salt). For example, usually "diet" means time off of sweets throughout the day. This imbalance, and therefore lacks an intense desire to create cakes. The sensory specific satiety may in theory there is a little 'different – denying yourself the sweet taste, which are not "fed up", senses, and then moved to-dessert after dinner, your body will try to do it. You may also be a sweet addiction, because you eat salty foods all day, making an imbalance of salt in excess. EatCandy is a way to deal with the salt we eat.
This also helps explain why many of us (after eating "healthy" throughout the day for many people, what a sweet), free breakfast and lunch, you tend to snack heavily when we get home late at night. This new picture of the situation – is not that we do not "willpower" and "control" at the end of the day, we're just responding to the needs of our body to compensate.
What can you do?
But the knowledge of sensoryspecific satiety is the first step to deal with them. You can also:
You eat the simplest foods in their natural state and avoid processed, packaged foods contain sodium and other flavors hidden triggers.
Avoid buffets. Dr. Katz cautions that buffet sensory-specific satiety trigger so that portion control makes it almost impossible.
Please eat more fruits, whole grains, vegetables and sweet as a way of "sweet". Our sense of satiety threshold is more sweet than the other versions,and may be associated with the consumption of total Natural Foods (afterall be met, is how people do before we had all these processed foods!). Fresh vegetables, sweet potatoes, beets, sweet onions, carrots and corn (corn is technically a grain, but it's nice!)
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