Re: fish oil abates hunger

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From: Francesca Skelton <fskelton@e...>

Date: Tue Aug 17, 2004 2:49 pm

Subject: fish oil abates hunger

A short time back posted that after trial and error she

discovered that a couple of fish oil tablets abated her hunger. I've

tried this a couple of times and it seems to work. A couple of

capsules will put off my hunger for about 2 hours (and by then it's

usually mealtime).

I have no idea why this works but it does seem to do the trick.

I've added this to our " Aids and Tips " file.

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It's the calories in the fish oil. Out of curiosity, I weighed 20

Vitamin E gels, which are about 1/2 the size of the fish oil capsules.

They weighed about 11 grams. So, if 10 fish oil capsules weigh 11

grams, 2 capsules weigh 2.2 grams. At 9 calories per gram this is

about 20 calories plus a trace amount of protein from the gelatin

coating.

Tony

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From: " Dowling " <dowlic@h...>

Date: Tue Aug 17, 2004 7:13 pm

Subject: RE: [ ] Re: fish oil abates hunger

Perhaps it is just the calories, but 20 cals rarely satisfy my hunger.

I've not tried fish oil capsules. Usually raw broccoli and red peppers

work best for me.

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According to BT120YD (p.338) One cup of red pepper strips, or one

large sweet pepper (100 g) has 31 calories. One medium stalk of

broccoli (180 g) has 32 calories.

The number of calories is in the same ball park as the 2 fish

capsules.

Tony