Is there a relationship between stomach size, food intake, and WEIGHT
CONTROL?
“Reduce stomach
naturally without surgery. You will lose weight and look great.”
From the studies below, it is safe to assume that whatever can
help reduce the stomach size will help control appetite and thus weight
reduction. Further proof is the extreme example of surgical procedure to reduce
stomach size. One of the major reasons for surgery to promote weight loss is
that the operations close off parts of the stomach to make it smaller.
Operations that only reduce stomach size are known as "restrictive
operations" because they restrict the amount of food the stomach can hold.
Please note that we are not promoting surgery but suggest reducing
stomach naturally without surgery.
The stomach is a muscular organ - about the size of your hand
- that stretches when full and returns to normal when empty. This stretching of
the stomach is only temporary. The size of stomach that varies among
individuals, affects food intake.
Although bigger people tend to have bigger appetites, the size
of the stomach--and not just the size of the body--appears to affect the
feeling of fullness, or satiation, during and after a meal, according to
research from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota.
The investigators found that compared with normal-weight
adults, those who were overweight or obese took longer to feel satiated at
mealtime. Similarly, those whose empty stomachs were larger needed more
calories to feel completely full.
It was not merely a matter of bigger people having bigger
stomachs, said the researchers. Instead, the size of a person's empty stomach
(called fasting gastric volume) was related to a feeling of fullness
independent of body size.
Their study included 134 healthy volunteers who, after an
overnight fast, drank a liquid meal until they reached maximum satiation. Their
stomach volume before and after eating was measured through non-invasive
imaging. The researchers found that both body mass index (BMI) and fasting
gastric volume were independently linked to the time it took participants to
become full.
The study suggests that factors governing stomach volume might
predispose people to obesity and could serve as targets for weight-control
tactics. These control mechanisms could range from eating patterns, such as
whether a person eats small meals throughout the day or tends to binge, to
hormones, to the nerves that control stomach contraction and relaxation
(Gastroenterology, February 2004).
Conclusion: Reduced
stomach not only improves the appearance but helps control weight. Because,
reduced stomach makes you feel full with less food reducing the amount of food
eaten and thus the calories consumed. This leads to weight loss. Therefore,
you're killing two birds with one-stone, the reduced stomach which results in reduced
weight in this simple but effective exercise from “The Power of Breathing.”
The Bottom Line: Reduce
stomach naturally without surgery, and you will lose weight and look great.
It's that simple. Try Specific breathing exercises such as Kapalbhati that reduces the stomach size..
Quiz: Who is more
likely to die early?
A. An overweight person
with a flat stomach.
B. A normal-weight
person with a big stomach.
Answer: B.
Surprisingly, a normal-weight man or woman who has a big
stomach is more likely to die early from heart disease than an overweight or
even obese man or woman who has a flat stomach.
That's why "Banish Belly"
is an important part of losing weight.
References: “A Simple
Solution to Americas Weight Problem” http://amzn.to/eRU5S6 https://goo.gl/acCyws
“The Power of
Breathing” http://amzn.to/h14DD2 https://goo.gl/acCyws
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