Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Appetite suppressing foods

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

[fast5] Re: Appetite suppressing foods

I agree - experimenting is they way to find out what works. I've found lately that a handful of cherry or grape tomatoes and a handful of peanuts (unsalted) makes a good appetite quencher, but I have no idea whether that would work for anyone else.

I'm no conspiracy theorist, but wonder if these sorts of "news" articles are encouraged somewhere in the back rooms of advertising deals. If every overweight American were to trim his or her diet by 20 calories a day (less than half an Oreo's worth, enough to keep off the "typical" gain of two pounds a year), consider the financial impact:

Suppose 130 million people (just the overweight adults in the USA) cut 20 calories per day, every day. Let's say the food that's not eaten (and not bought) comes in the form of pasta, a pretty cheap food, about 1 cent for 5 calories' worth. That's 4 cents worth of food per day per adult. Annually, that's a 1.9 billion dollar revenue loss to the retail grocery industry, with much of the loss passed on to the manufacturing and farming industries. If the same number of adults were to cut back enough to actually lose weight rather than just not gain, the impact would be even more. 500 calories a day -- what Fast5ers cut to lose a pound per week -- is 25 times that.

These industries would much rather you keep eating and spending more money on gyms, trainers, exercise equipment and what-not than cut back even a tiny bit on consumption. Rick talked a while back about the financial impact of Fast-5. It's not significant in the big scheme of things, but could be.

Best wishes,

Bert

Bert Herring
Fast-5 Corporation

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "msdanacat" <msdanacat@...> wrote:
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> I have to agree with Ellen. Almost all of the foods listed trigger appetite for me, rather than suppressing it. It's annoying how those articles present a one-size-fits-all approach that most likely won't fit most.
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> - DanaCat
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> --- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Ellen Ussery <ellen.ussery@> wrote:
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> > All those foods make me hungry. Stories like this drive me up the wall. We
> > are all different.
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> > Ellen
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> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Rick Stewart <rstewart@> wrote:
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> > > Hi all-
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> > > I came across the following article on appetite suppressing foods and
> > > thought it might be relevant to some here on Fast-5:
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> > > http://www.beachbody.com/product/365.do?code=NEWS_365_QUIZ
> > >
> > > -Rick Stewart
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