X-Message-Number: 17698
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 10:47:09 -0700
From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Re:  4'th update on food satiation experiments
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>     This is the forth update on my food satiation experiments, in which I
> compare the ad libitum calorie intake of various foods over a period of
> one day.

Interesting; I'd find it more interesting if there were more than 
one trial of each food.  I had the same complaint about the fruit 
fly experiments.  As a software QA engineer, I live by the rule 
that if something has only happened once, it hasn't happened.

If youu can't stand actually repeating an experiment, how about 
trying all the same foods, but different brands?  Maybe you can
only stomach 1388 calories of store brand rye bread,  but the 
fresh-baked loaf from the deli is yummy and you eat 2500.  Or 
maybe the name brand is more calorie-dense, or sliced thinner,
or whatever.

I'm tempted to run an actual experiment myself, to show you how
it's done -- this just looks like random play to me.  Is there 
even a hypothesis?  What I see is that you tend to eat more 
calories' worth of foods you find tastier-- well, duh!  Actually, 
you don't even say if you ate anything else that day, or took a 
multivitamin, or drank any water...  And I don't know if it counts
as an experiment if you only run it on yourself.  Personally, I
*love* Gala apples!

I once went on a one-ingredient-a-day diet:  each day I would 
eat not a single item, but a single food:  so on corn day I 
could have boiled corn, raw corn, popcorn (no oil) or corn 
tortillas, but no corn chips.  On banana day I could have 
whole bananas, baked bananas, microwaved bananas... you get 
the idea.  BTW, frying bananas without oil makes a mess of 
even a teflon pan.

I would rotate days so that I had a vegie day, a meat day, a
protein day... I tried a milk day -- that was my  malabsorption
nightmare.  Maybe if I tried goat's milk, or lactose-free 
milk....  Anyhow, I almost think it could come out balanced 
enough to make for a reasonable short-term weight-loss diet;
I know I lost weight on it.  But it didn't stay lost, so I 
don't know.  My weight is annoying me again, so I may try 
something like it again.  A single day a week of eating nothing
but as much broccoli (I love broccoli) as I can force down 
could make a difference in my weight.  But I don't call it an 
experiment, because I was pretty much sure of the outcome from
the start.

I've gone on too long already -- I'm guessing that everyone who
is going to get the point has gotten it.
-- 
May you live long and prosper,
Kennita
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