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Calories control weight -- and nutrition controls
Calories -- because it controls hunger.
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Food lists, detailed meal plans, and recipes that turn these principles
into an effective weight loss method are explained in part three of
The 2004 Multi-Diet.
Part three is included in both the eBook & print editions.
The Multi-Diet is available in our
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You can download the eBook version immediately.
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The nutrients that "everyone" knows about
are very important to keeping you healthy and -- most
importantly for dieters -- for controlling hunger.
But there are others that fewer people know of and
many of them don't understand well that are just as
important for controlling hunger.
Fiber is one of these.
Main Discussion
Fiber Is Like A "Proto-vitamin"
Fiber is like a "proto-vitamin". It has no
biochemical function because it never leaves the
intestine, but it has an important physical function,
and your body will trigger hunger or some other eating
motivation when it needs more fiber to perform that
function.
Fiber is indigestible plant material. Your body
needs it and uses it as "bulk" to
"push" biochemical waste out of your
intestine.
This is very important for your health.
All by itself that "waste" is mildly toxic
and harmful to your health. But more importantly, it
provides an excellent home for bacteria and other
things that can be extremely toxic and harmful
to your health.
So your body naturally wants to get rid of it as
fast as possible. Fiber is important for this and hence
getting enough fiber is also important.
When your body senses that it is getting
"constipated" (even if you can't
feel it yet), it will tend to trigger hunger to
try to stimulate you to eat something that will have
the fiber it needs to end the constipation.
When this happens, you need to eat the right things.
For example, if you eat (e.g.) a bag of potato
chips, you won't actually get much fiber; but you will
get lots of Calories that will destroy your diet (if
you happen to be on one); and you'll quickly get hungry
again as your body keeps trying to make you give it
what it really needs.
Conversely, however, if you eat vegetables, beans,
high-fiber cereal, or other food with lots of fiber but
not many Calories, you will get the fiber your
body wants and "turn off" the hunger
(if it was caused by a lack of fiber) without
destroying your diet.
This the reason managing fiber (along with other
nutritional factors that can have this same effect) is not
optional if you are serious about losing weight.
We discuss this further in the rest of this section.
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