March 18, 2004

i'll have a pastasicle please

apparently, mit researchers have discovered that carbs are not only good for you, but are the only thing that enable your brain to make seratonin.

the interesting thing is that the brain makes serotonin only after a person consumes sweet or starchy carbohydrates. but the kicker is that these carbohydrates must be eaten in combination with very little or no protein, otherwise no seratonin is produced.

“There are people we call carbohydrate cravers who need to eat a certain amount of carbohydrates to keep their moods steady,” said MIT researcher Judith Wurtman, co-founder of Adara, a weight-management company whose programs are based on her research. “Carbohydrate cravers experience a change in their mood, usually in the late afternoon or mid-evening. And with this mood change comes a yearning to eat something sweet or starchy.”

hmm, i love the part where they slip in the plug for adara, her new weight-management company. maybe this is just a ploy for her to become the new anti-atkins. no website for adara yet, although there are ones for adara the hearing recovery professionals support/networking group, and of course links for adara michaels the porn star…

Posted at March 18, 2004 12:00 PM
Comments

Initially I thought that said “pastichecicle,” which was even more absurd than “pastacicle.” Not that I’d put that past you…

Posted by: Jodi at March 19, 2004 12:53 AM

People go round and round don’t they!
My mother was “on a diet” for most of my life. It always seemed terribly unhealthy, mostly mentally, in my opinion. I don’t usually feel comfortable passing my opinions on about this topic because I have a metabolism like a bird’s…but here goes…
Go outside and move around, play with your kids, eat green things, and orange things, and lots of different types of things, change what you eat all the time. Carbs are not inherently Bad, nor is fat, nor is meat, nor is sugar. Unless you make one of them 35% of your diet. But maybe that’s just too complicated.

Posted by: Cheryl at March 21, 2004 5:36 PM

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