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 References: <> > 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 -- Kennita Watson | Way Cool Internet Radio: http://www.live365.com | http://www.kennita.com | Great Minds Think Alive! -- Lee Corbin Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17698