Re: tip for cutting calories

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the tips.

Going hungry in mid-mourning, I have that as well.

Dont know why but it does seem like you think alot about food just

before Lunch time. I dont know if its true but it seems like you need

more energy during the day.

I've cutout tea/coffee from my diet for about 2 weeks now. In the

past, I use to drink lots and lots of tea but it seemed to affect my

hunger pains. Peronally, CR seems more manageble when going without

tea/coffee (that's all teas including chinese/japanese).

[Guest guest]

Hi All,

Maybe the below helps explain your observations.

Cheers, Al Pater.

Behav Neurosci. 2002 Apr;116(2):334-46.

Caffeine-reinforced conditioned flavor preferences in rats.

Fedorchak PM, Mesita J, Plater SA, Brougham K.

In 4 experiments, rats were trained to associate 1 of 2 differently

flavored solutions with caffeine. During later 2-bottle extinction

tests, they consistently preferred flavors that had been previously

mixed with 2 lower (0.25 and 0.125 mg/ml), but not 2 higher (0.5 and

0.75 mg/ml), caffeine concentrations. Hunger during conditioning

increased the size of these preferences, but neither preexposure to

unflavored caffeine nor hunger during the choice test had any effect

on them. Because caffeine is noncaloric, this last finding

strengthens the hypothesis that hunger enhances the expression of

only calorie-based conditioned flavor preferences. More

fundamentally, the present results represent the first clear evidence

that, through Pavlovian conditioning, rats can develop preferences

for flavors associated with caffeine.

PMID: 11996318 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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wrote:

> Thanks for the tips.

>

> Going hungry in mid-mourning, I have that as well.

>

> Dont know why but it does seem like you think alot about food just

> before Lunch time. I dont know if its true but it seems like you

need

> more energy during the day.

>

> I've cutout tea/coffee from my diet for about 2 weeks now. In the

> past, I use to drink lots and lots of tea but it seemed to affect

my

> hunger pains. Peronally, CR seems more manageble when going without

> tea/coffee (that's all teas including chinese/japanese).