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The usual case is that people cannot distinguish between the bodily feelings under a mild stress and the feeling of hunger. So, they eat to become calmer, while actually they don't need additional calories this time.

btw, most of word's religions praise the fasting as the method to improve self-control and health.

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Just to mess this up further, there are some recent studies into ego depletion (basically willpower failures) which indicate that low blood sugar can make self-control more difficult, as the brain's executive function doesn't work that well when it has less chemical energy.

The obvious corollary would be that dieting that allows blood sugar to drop too low is going to make it harder to avoid binge eating lapses. Would it work the other way too, so that successful exercise of self-control while fasting adapts the brain to maintain good executive function even when low on glucose?

Go running after dinner. I assure you that one will not overeat the second time.

Ironically, the things least likely to make one throw up if you exercise right after eating them are the sorts of foods one should generally avoid if at all worried about obesity...

I thought that was the joke: If you eat much before running, you will feel terrible and likely vomit during the run. The second time, you'll learn to not eat as much beforehand.

I usually don't eat about 4 hours prior to running. That means running before breakfast or before dinner.

Yeah, that was how I understood the joke too. What I found ironic is that if I wanted to eat during vigourous exercise, or straight before, it'd be your basic loads-of-carbs-in-easy-to-digest-form kind of deal: the exact kind of thing I'd shun if I was trying to lose weight.

That was solved centuries ago - take a look what Indian people are eating - lentil soups (daal) and various kinds of a whole grain plain breads (just wheat and water).

Most cultures have healthy foods which do not cause obesity, India is hardly alone in this. The problem is that as a society gets richer, people may lean towards eating the fattier foods.

In the US, we switched from rice and beans to double baconburgers. India may switch from Palak Dal to Dal Mahkni, which is not much better.

Once again linking to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Lustig argues that fructose/HFC/everything-not-glucose messes with our internal sensors to determine whether we've got enough or if we still need a tad more power. As a result we eat too much.

Edit: Aw, hit reply instead of making my own post.

There's still time - you can copy your comment, delete, and re-insert as a new comment. If you know how to edit, you should know how to do that.

Here is a good back and forth with Lustig and why his science could be suspect.

http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-ab...

http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/02/19/a-retrospective-of-...

There is no secret why people are fat. People are doing less exercise wise and eating more crap food wise. Trying to blame it on one trigger such as HFCS is clearly ignoring the big picture.

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