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Do Blood Glucose Levels Affect Hunger and Satiety?

You've heard the story before: when you eat carbohydrate-rich foods that digest quickly, it sends your blood sugar and insulin levels soaring, then your blood sugar level comes crashing back down and you feel hungry and cranky.  You reach for more carbohydrate, perpetuating the cycle of crashes, overeating, and fat gain. It sounds pretty reasonable-- in fact, so reasonable that it's commonly stated as fact in popular media and in casual conversation.  This idea is so deeply ingrained the popular psyche that people often say "I have low blood sugar" instead of "I'm hungry" or "I'm tired".  But this hypothesis has a big problem: despite extensive research, it hasn't been clearly supported.  I've written about this issue before ( 1 ). A new study offers a straightforward test of the hypothesis, and once again finds it lacking. The study Read more » This post was written by Stephan Guyenet for Whole Health Source . from Who

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Nutrition News: Exercise and Brain Hunger, Vitamin D and Asthma, and Mediterranean Diet Tips

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Brain hunger You know how, sometimes, after you’ve completed a big, stressful, mentally taxing assignment — a college term paper, say, or a complex work project — you suddenly feel ravenous? That may be because your brain, depleted of energy after working hard, signals you to eat more calories in order to fuel further efforts (thus explaining the much-feared Freshman 15). However, exercise may subvert this mental-stress-induced craving for calories , a study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, noted in The New York Times, indicates, because it increases the amount of blood sugar and lactate in the blood and increases blood flow to the head. Worth a try. Asthma aid A new research review brings promising news for those living with asthma. Taking a daily oral vitamin D supplement — anything from 400 to 4,000 units a day — was determined to reduce the risk of reduce asthma attacks requiring medication by 37 percent and those requiring emergency intervention by 60 percent. Howe

Roasted Squash & Wheatberry Salad

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A friend gave me an acorn squash from his garden, and I used it as the inspiration for this hearty salad. I used to cook wheatberries all the time, but they somehow fell off my radar. Probably because I was eating them in bread form from Great Harvest all those years! I recently realized I could cook them in my rice cooker. So simple! I LOVE my ricer cooker , and it was one of the best appliance purchases I made. This book is the ultimate rice cooker companion, and I consult it before cooking anything. The authors recommended soaking the wheatberries in hot water in the rice cooker bowl before setting it on the brown rice setting. After the rice cycle, they were perfectly tender. Meanwhile, I roasted the acorn squash in the oven after tossing it in olive oil, brown sugar, and salt. The veggies in this recipe could be changed depending on what you have on hand – peppers, grated carrots, tomatoes, chopped spinach, etc. I eat the acorn squash skin because once it’s roast

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