Healthy Eating Support Group

dear Cin, sry but l'm clueless about the stuff you mention,l would enjoy knowing what they are
God Bless

p s GL with yr treatise

This is such a huge subject that I don't even know how to reduce it for the small amount of time I have at my meeting on Monday night. I also think I am in information over load. Most of us understand how our blood sugar makes us hungry but thats not the whole picture. Then finding that fine line between hunger and craving makeas it even bigger. I have come up with a few other hormones involved too than the ones I originaly posted about. Orexin, PYY3-36,and endocannabinoids. These hormones are strong like when people smoke pot and get the munchies. Also it is such a new subject that alot of what they know is from rats and not people.

Grehlin is our survior hunger hormone we get from our ancestors. It tells us to eat. It is produced by adipose tissue. The ghrelin hormone not only stimulates the brain giving rise to an increase in appetite, but also favours the accumulation of lipids in visceral fatty tissue, located in the abdominal zone and considered to be the most harmful. What they call Toxic Fat. Some are saying it has more to do with diabetes than it dose obesity. It seems to be effected by stress and lack of sleep and how often you eat. Leptin tells us we are full and shuts off the hormone grehlin. The longer it has been since we ate the more grehlin we have. So skippiping meals or fasting is not good. Many small meals fools grehlin to think your full. The problem comes when you are no longer getting the singnal that your full. That would be leptin resistance. It is like insulin resistance and the two go together (also throid). Your never full and you keep getting fatter because it is getting the signal to store fat. Almost ever obese person is leptin resistant. They have enough leptin, but it isn't working. One link they have found to leptin resistance is fructose. High fructose corn syrup is a big cause.

Osteocalcin is a new decovered hormone in our bones that signals insulin and has a strong link to diabetes also. It is so interesting to me. Here is some sample links.

http://hubpages.com/hub/Weight_Los...

http://leptinresearch.org/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releas...