Jiyo Healthy!

Have you ever wondered what prompts these sudden yet unexpected hunger pangs? Could it be the food that you ate….Indeed it can be!  For there are some food ingredients that can fool your body into thinking that it has ‘not had enough’, leading to re-bound hunger or those nasty unexpected hunger pangs. So here are some more reasons for it:

• You prefer Milk in your Tea! We Indians prefer drinking their Chai with Milk and that is precisely where we lose out on the tea’s benefits! A study published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, found that those who drank black tea after consuming a meal high in carbohydrates, had a 10% decrease in their blood sugar levels for a time period of close to 3 hours, meaning they didn’t experience any untoward hunger pangs during those 3 hours.

• Maybe you are drinking too many soft drinks: With us preferring Colas, Iced Teas and other sweetened beverages over good ol’ water, we have been ingesting high levels of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS), unknowingly.  HFCS hinders the body’s ability to use Leptin, which is better known as the ‘satiation hormone’. The role of Leptin is to let our body know when it has had enough, but with HFCS inhibiting it, the body does not understand when it’s had enough, which invariably leads to the sudden cravings!

To read more reasons see Can’t stop feeling hungry? Here’s why …

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