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A SIMPLE
SOLUTION TO AMERICA'S WEIGHT PROBLEM
Banish
Belly and Lose Weight:
In Just 5 Minutes A Day
Stomach
size and its relationship with food Intake
The stomach is a muscular organ - about the size of
your hand - that stretches when full and returns to normal
when empty. This stretching of the stomach is only temporary.
The size of stomach that varies among individuals, affects food intake.
Although bigger people tend to have bigger appetites,
the size of the stomach--and not just the size of the
body--appears to affect the feeling of fullness, or satiation,
during and after a meal, according to research from the Mayo
Clinic College of Medicine in
Rochester
,
Minnesota
.
The investigators found that compared with
normal-weight adults, those who were overweight or obese took
longer to feel satiated at mealtime. Similarly, those whose
empty stomachs were larger needed more calories to feel
completely full.
It was not merely a matter of bigger people having
bigger stomachs, said the researchers. Instead, the size of a
person's empty stomach (called fasting gastric volume) was
related to a feeling of fullness independent of body size.
Their study included 134 healthy volunteers who, after
an overnight fast, drank a liquid meal until they reached
maximum satiation. Their stomach volume before and after
eating was measured through non-invasive imaging.
The researchers found that both body mass index (BMI)
and fasting gastric volume were independently linked to the
time it took participants to become full.
The study suggests that factors governing stomach
volume might predispose people to obesity and could serve as
targets for weight-control tactics. These control mechanisms
could range from eating patterns, such as whether a person
eats small meals throughout the day or tends to binge, to
hormones, to the nerves that control stomach contraction and
relaxation (Gastroenterology, February 2004).
From these studies it is safe to assume that whatever
can help reduce the stomach size will help control appetite
and thus weight reduction.
Further proof is the extreme example of surgical
procedure to reduce stomach size.
One of the major reasons for surgery to promote weight
loss is that the operations close off parts of the stomach to
make it smaller. Operations that only reduce stomach size are
known as "restrictive operations" because they
restrict the amount of food the stomach can hold.
In conclusion, reduced stomach not only improves the
appearance but helps control weight.
Because, reduced stomach makes you feel full with less
food reducing the amount of food eaten and thus the calories
consumed. This leads to weight loss.
Therefore, you’re killing two birds with one-stone,
the reduced stomach which reduces weight in this simple but
effective exercise.
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