Pig Out

[erudito]

Didn’t go to William Marshal this year, neither the tourney nor the feast. Had a whole lot of personal issues - a combination of blasts from the pasts and significant nasty anniversary - which I didn’t work through until Friday night, by which point it was a bit late.

Went to the launch of Kerry Greenwood’s new book of Phryne Fisher short stories

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Diet changes

[catsidhe]

On the Medicine Report on Radio National last night, I heard a report about studies into how various hormones and obesity interact.

The gist was that several likely-looking hormonal managers for such things as fullness, satiety and wellness, turn out to be quite complicated in interaction, but Insulin is up there at the top of the list as helping reduce obesity.

The doctor reported a study where insulin levels were changed in obese people, children and adults, and where before there was a feedback loop where their brains didn't register the hormone indicating satiety, which caused other problems with feelings of low energy, which discouraged exercise and encouraged more eating, &c, afterwards they found that once the ability to register satiety was restored, energy levels increased, leading to disdain for high carb foods (because the body no longer craved the energy kick), and spontaneous exercise began, which fed back into the increased energy levels and hormonal satiety response.

And in the discussion about what these findings mean, they came to the conclusion that while various hormonal replacement/blocking treatments were suitable for specific disorders, and only to a given point, there was one treatment which works for everyone: exercise.

There was another report about how the increased use of Fructose instead of Glucose is a major part of the obesity epidemic, as while Glucose may be metabolised into fat if in excess, Fructose is a hepatotoxin, which causes the creation of more fat cells, and damages the liver to boot, with similar effects to alcohol. As the doctor said: “fructose is alcohol without the buzz”.

All this is apropos of sod all, I just thought you'd be interested.
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Re: Diet changes

[erudito]

Very useful and informative, ta.