http://www.v-com.com/erichubscherpfisite_027.htm Serious Personal Fitness Training for Those Who are ONLY Serious. East Coast: Serving Vermont, Williston, Burlington, Essex Junction, Stowe. West Coast: Thousand Oaks, Agoura Hills, Westlake Village, and Ventura County. Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:46:22 GMT Web Easy by Avanquest Publishing USA, Inc. http://www.v-com.com/erichubscherpfisite_027.htm http://www.v-com.com/pfi logo purple.jpg Satiety is technically defined as a state or condition of satisfaction. In other words, it's the full gratification of appetite or thirst resulting in the elimination of the desire to consume more food or liquid. http://www.v-com.com/erichubscherpfisite_027.htm Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:46:22 GMT Eric Hubscher At this time, we should distinguish between hunger and appetite. Hunger is the true physiological need for nourishment. Appetite, however, is simply the desire to eat and has nothing to do with the need to eat. http://www.v-com.com/erichubscherpfisite_027.htm Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:46:22 GMT Eric Hubscher In my quest to better educate you, the following is a short essay on eating, weight loss and understand the mind-set to maintain weight loss. If you are serious about weight loss then the 10 - 15 minutes it will take you to read this and understand it will be worth it. http://www.v-com.com/erichubscherpfisite_027.htm Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:46:22 GMT Eric Hubscher Humans are designed to consume food and fluids until the nutritional needs of our tissues and organs are fulfilled. However, this isn't our only trigger for satiety. If it were, our desire to eat would end immediately upon consuming what we need, rather than continuing to eat after we are full. http://www.v-com.com/erichubscherpfisite_027.htm Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:46:22 GMT Eric Hubscher Nearly all humans are born with a craving for sweetness. Newborns are a perfect example of this. Obviously, without learned eating behaviors, a newborn responds positively to sweetness and negatively to bitterness. These biases were probably necessary at one time for the survival of the species. Bitterness tends to be correlated with toxins and sweetness with energy, favoring the bias for sweetness. http://www.v-com.com/erichubscherpfisite_027.htm Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:46:22 GMT Eric Hubscher Each of these nutrients effects satiety in unique ways. When consumed together at each meal, they may initiate and prolong satiety better than if eaten alone. If you still want something sweet following a full meal, either satisfy the craving with a low-calorie dessert or just ignore it. Just because we feel the desire to eat something sweet doesn't mean that the body needs it, this desire usually subsides about 30 minutes after the meal as the internal satiety cues are triggered and received by the brain. Dessert is a habit, and as such can be broken or replaced by a better habit. http://www.v-com.com/erichubscherpfisite_027.htm Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:46:22 GMT Eric Hubscher Evidence is accumulating that genetics may influence both the likelihood that a given individual will become fat, and what percentage of body fat will settle into as an adult. This idea is the basis of the "set-point theory" and it means that attempts to alter this "set-point" of weight or fatness triggers the body to take steps to revert back to it. The body does this trrough several mechanisms that cause increased food consumption, decreased energy expenditure, or both. http://www.v-com.com/erichubscherpfisite_027.htm Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:46:22 GMT Eric Hubscher We often drink and eat when we are not truly hungry. Holiday feasting, going out after dinner for drinks with friends, and consuming buttered popcorn throughout a movie are but a few examples of eating as a result of social or ritual influences instead of actual hunger. http://www.v-com.com/erichubscherpfisite_027.htm Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:46:22 GMT Eric Hubscher Following the newborn period, children begin to have food experiences that influence their eating behaviors for life. These behaviors interact with the body's signals to control appetite and satiety. These learned cues are created in part by our parents, culture, commercial influences, at cetera. Keep in mind that these are learned cues, and as such, they can be unlearned. http://www.v-com.com/erichubscherpfisite_027.htm Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:46:22 GMT Eric Hubscher Eating behaviors and patterns developed during youth, passed on to you by your parents or peers will affect your choices throughout your life. High-calorie foods and desserts after meals may not have been a problem during youth, when energy expenditure was high, but now, forced into less activity by sedentary jobs in adulthood, these behaviors lead to energy storage that result in the accumulation of body fat. Ethnic groups consuming mainly foods indigenous to their culture for many generations develop a digestive physiology or enzymes that are compatible with the food they eat. Therefore, changing foods, if necessary, may be unpleasant until one's digestive tract adapts to the new food choices. http://www.v-com.com/erichubscherpfisite_027.htm Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:46:22 GMT Eric Hubscher Can your mood affect your appetite, or, more specifically, a craving for a particular food, like chocolate? There ahs been a fair amount of research in the area of food, mood and appetite, but any conclusions drawn from this data have had little effect on our expanding waistlines. No one has to be stuck with sinful food cravings for life. http://www.v-com.com/erichubscherpfisite_027.htm Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:46:22 GMT Eric Hubscher In today's environment, people often consume food or drink even though they're not hungry because of the social settings, type of food available or because of the habits they have learned. http://www.v-com.com/erichubscherpfisite_027.htm Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:46:22 GMT Eric Hubscher