Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve fat burning

Re:Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve ... by toss1 on Saturday July 27, 2019 @11:46PM (#20545734)

Blackmail indeed, although it may be a different phenomena; consider:

You need a laundry list of nutrients, and if your body is short of any one of them, it'll crave something that might have it. If it has it in insufficient density, it won't care that it needs to also get an extra 500 Kcal along for the ride - it needs to satisfy each item on the list.

I've seen this behavior in both cats and people -- feed them better quality food, and their cravings & weight go down as the full set of nutrients is found in fewer calories.

(Different topic, also very big on intermittent fasting, ensuring that there are frequent periods where the body recovers energy from fat stores)

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Re:Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve ... by chillydawg on Sunday July 28, 2019 @04:33AM (#20546468)

I've no idea about how cravings work in general, but when I have a craving for two pizzas it's absolutely nothing to do with nutrients. I think you're probably correct for some subset of people/situations, but there's also a whole set of people who are effectively addicted to food and the cravings are almost 0% to do with not having the correct nutrients.

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Re:Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve ... by toss1 on Sunday July 28, 2019 @10:07AM (#20547596)

Yes, there is that, although I'd put that in a different class of cravings, almost engineered cravings created/exploited by the food industry, where foods are engineered for taste and repeated consumption, e.g., drinks that make you more thirsty, or overladen salt & sweet flavors that we're just generally programmed to seek because they are rare in nature, but engineer-able.

I noticed one study a long time ago just about flavor. Basically, rats, being fed standard rat chow, with nutrients and calories kept constant, both groups had full access to the food. Group A had one flavor, Group B had six flavors. Group B gained a lot more weight. So, merely restricting flavor choice will reduce your inclination to eat, and conversely, food engineers creating foods with lots of flavors will increase food and eating...

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Re:Meal timing strategies appear to lower appetite, improve ... by mosselman on Sunday July 28, 2019 @06:09AM (#20546740)

You supposedly craving two pizzas rather than just pizza sounds like nonsense to me. It is far too specific to be a craving, if anything it sounds more like a habit to me. Whenever I eat pizza I share a small one with my wife and I still feel like I overate.

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