Re: A disappointing week

From: Dr. Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD (andrew_at_heartmdphd.com)
Date: 12/09/04 

Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:46:58 -0500

wondering@worldnet.com wrote:
>
> "Yes. Increased appetite/hunger leads to eating more for those who are
> not limiting their intake (ie watching how much they are eating)."
>
> I think you fail to see the full picture. With differences in sleep there
> are different levels of the counter balancing leptin and ghrelin. There
> is a great deal of research being done on this part of the weight status
> question just now. In this research there is a 15 percent difference based
> on the sleep part alone for the production of these hormones. Just saying
> that one who eats more will gain weight because they are hungary is a bit
> of a tautology. What this research shows is that for the same anount of
> food but with sleep differences and differential hormones, two different
> people can have significant differences in the hunger, or not, impulse.

   It is not the feeling of hunger that causes the weight gain. Indeed
the study underscores the fact that the amount of hunger one may feel
does not help one determine when and how much to eat. Here, folks
should sleep instead of eating more since what they lack is actually
sleep and not energy stores.
   If you choose to befriend hunger because you are not afraid of it (No
one has ever died from hunger. Indeed, folks dying from starvation are
not hungry) and see it for what it is, a beneficial indicator of overall
good health and energy balance, in the setting of knowing that you are
eating an adequate amount (ie the 2PD Approach), you will be in a
position to choose not to eat more despite the increased hunger from the
"stress" of fatigue, sleep deprivation, pain, or anxiety. It is easier
to make this choice when you recognize that there are many forces at
work to make you believe that when you feel the least bit hungry that
"you feel like you are starving" (quoting friends and family) or that
"you gotta eat" (quoting a commercial).

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Andrew 

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