Do complex carbohydrates actually reduce appetite and hunger?

Appetite is what controls your cravings and this is influenced by the sensory reaction to food so your appetite can increase or decrease depending on your ... read more

Hunger is relieved after eating a small bowl of pasta, but appetite causes a person to have a large bowl of pasta, or even seconds, and eat until feeling stuffed. Low Carbohydrate Diet and Appetite Studies have found that low carbohydrate eating can help with short term weight loss and may curb hunger, according to the June, 2006"American Family Physician" article. read more

However, it is our hypothesis that appetite, hunger and obesity are sometimes functions of dietary carbohydrate (especially sugar) intake mediated by the following sequence of events: sight, smell, taste and ingestion of carbohydrates, especially sugar-vhyperinsulinemia2 -sbypoglycemia3 -vappetite, hunger" -vincreased food intake (especially sugarj-e-obesity. read more