A very small slice of cheese or a piece of butter is enough to moderate the feeling of hunger, as these foods contain substances that block appetite.
These are the results of research by scientists from the University of California.
California researchers have shown that the feeling of hunger that could make us eat at a non-regular time a full-fledged lunch disappears without a trace if we eat a little butter or cheese.
The mechanism of this phenomenon is simple: with the use of these products, the level of the hormone of saturation - cholecystokinin increases 20 times. Having received it, the human body comes to the conclusion that at the moment it is quite enough nutrients, and ceases to "beg for" food. The feeling of hunger passes. Especially if you wait a bit, until a bit of cheese is absorbed a little.
High-fat foods are slowly digested, providing a feeling of satiety for a long time. Hunters, who had to be without food for a long time, took fat with them. A small piece was enough to long not to feel hunger. People who have a long hike to go, for the same reason, always took a cheese. Nomads in Central Asia used hard cheeses, and soaked it under the saddle - with the help of horse sweat.
The study of Americans, obviously, proves that the fat contained in the products, in addition to the feeling of satiety that it causes, stimulates the production of the hormone of cholecystokinin, the same pancreosimin. It is a peptide hormone of animals and humans, secreted by the mucous membrane of the duodenum, one of the hormones that cause a sense of satiety. And it is developed in response to the intake of fat.
But it's not at all necessary to eat a lot of cheese with butter for a sense of fullness. The action of this hormone is prolonged by cellulose. It is enough to eat some vegetables together with cheese, and the feeling of satiety will last longer.
Over the problem of suppressing appetite work in many scientific centers. For example, last year scientists from the University of Cincinnati found in the cells of the human hypothalamus an enzyme that regulates the feeling of satiety and hunger. Experimented on rodents and found that when the rats were starving for 48 hours, the enzyme activity decreased. The animals were then injected with leucine, an amino acid activating the corresponding enzyme, after which hungry rats lost interest in food.
When, on the other hand, the experimenters injected rats with a drug blocking the newly discovered enzyme, even quite well-fed animals began to intensively stuff the abdomen.
And last year a group of Swedish researchers from the University of Lund, working under the guidance of Dr. Jay May, also found a substance that mimics saturation. Scientists called it diamaele. It, on the contrary, slows down the absorption of fats and, due to this, causes a feeling of saturation. Swedes claim that their invention is a promising tool for treating obesity and diabetes in people with health. Sumy. Ua.