Type 2 Diabetes - Do You Eat for Pleasure and Not Hunger?
It is becoming more commonly known there is a psychological reason behind why people tend to overeat.
The reason behind the overeating, even if not known to the person doing it, is often what leads to the person being overweight.
But now a new study has found eating for pleasure is in fact easier to do than overeating for just hunger...
Enjoyment Eating Is More Satisfying.
This study came from Italy, which is perhaps the food capital of the world.
It was found hedonic eating, eating for pleasure, activates your body's reward system in ways eating to feel full, out of hunger, doesn't.
This study was published in the online Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and to get to this conclusion, the researchers measured the subjects...
At the end of the study, the research team found the test volunteers level of ghrelin and 2-AG increased as a direct result of pleasure eating, but they did not increase when they ate food that was not tasty.
So from this study, the team felt it was demonstrated eating to activate the body's chemical reward system can actually override the body's 'full signal'.
As this was only one small study, the results for now can only be classed as preliminary.
But it may be enough to make you pause as you reach for that sweet treat and ask yourself are you actually hungry? Or are you simply eating for pleasure? Diabetics Will Benefit from Study Findings.
This study and its finding could make all the difference to you if you are a Type 2 diabetic who is really trying to shift those excess pounds.
And it may help you to stop relying on your brain to tell you when you are full, and help you to simply say no to that cake slice, chocolate bar or bag of crisps.
We really should only eat when hungry.
We shouldn't eat to help us feel happy when we may not be able to trust our body's 'I'm full' signal if a particular food is something very pleasing to our eye and sense of taste Using food as 'therapy' for dealing with emotions is a very dangerous line to tread, and one that needs to be undone as soon as it is realised.
Then you will find your blood sugar and body weight become much more healthy and stable.
The reason behind the overeating, even if not known to the person doing it, is often what leads to the person being overweight.
But now a new study has found eating for pleasure is in fact easier to do than overeating for just hunger...
Enjoyment Eating Is More Satisfying.
This study came from Italy, which is perhaps the food capital of the world.
It was found hedonic eating, eating for pleasure, activates your body's reward system in ways eating to feel full, out of hunger, doesn't.
This study was published in the online Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism and to get to this conclusion, the researchers measured the subjects...
- ghrelin, the hunger hormone, and
- 2-AG, a brain activator that stimulates hunger.
It acts in the same way as marijuana which falsely makes people think they are hungry when they smoke this plant.
At the end of the study, the research team found the test volunteers level of ghrelin and 2-AG increased as a direct result of pleasure eating, but they did not increase when they ate food that was not tasty.
So from this study, the team felt it was demonstrated eating to activate the body's chemical reward system can actually override the body's 'full signal'.
As this was only one small study, the results for now can only be classed as preliminary.
But it may be enough to make you pause as you reach for that sweet treat and ask yourself are you actually hungry? Or are you simply eating for pleasure? Diabetics Will Benefit from Study Findings.
This study and its finding could make all the difference to you if you are a Type 2 diabetic who is really trying to shift those excess pounds.
And it may help you to stop relying on your brain to tell you when you are full, and help you to simply say no to that cake slice, chocolate bar or bag of crisps.
We really should only eat when hungry.
We shouldn't eat to help us feel happy when we may not be able to trust our body's 'I'm full' signal if a particular food is something very pleasing to our eye and sense of taste Using food as 'therapy' for dealing with emotions is a very dangerous line to tread, and one that needs to be undone as soon as it is realised.
Then you will find your blood sugar and body weight become much more healthy and stable.
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