Those of you who have gone down the diet milkshake road to weight loss will know that, despite their nutritional value, they're not always enough to stop you reaching for a chocolate muffin.Thank heavens, then, for the boffins at the School of Chemical Engineering at Birmingham University.
A research team at the university have come up with the ultimate diet drink. And they say it will leave you feeling as if you've munched through a substantial dinner.
Not so appealing is the science bit of it. By converting a starch-like substance called gellan gum (commonly used as a thickener in ice cream and the like) into a liquid, they have created a drink that turns to a gel as it reacts with digestive juices in the stomach.
Over the course of six hours, the almost-no-calorie substance slowly breaks down.
And now the scientists believe that by adding nutrients to the drink, they may have come up with the solution to dieting.
Dr Fotis Spyropoulos told the Telegraph: "We think it is a great idea because it is so simple.
"The solution we designed takes advantage of the body's natural process of digestion to convert itself into a gel that fills you up and then breaks down.
"We are now working on how to get it to release energy slowly so that it not only makes the stomach feel full but also provides energy the body needs."
If the mere sound of it has you reaching a full roast dinner, fear not.
The researchers' ultimate aim is to create a breakfast drink or porridge that will leave you feeling full but still able to eat three meals a day.
Provided those three meals don't include burgers, crisps and chocolate, the pounds will no doubt quickly disappear.
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Wednesday 04 November
Written by shawn phillips
Oh, the ever creative scientists.
It does sound novel and that's less a good thing than a giant Red Flag to me for novel, or interesting for a drive-by tends to imply it's less innovation and more a marketing angle.
Scientists--when it comes to food category--are less innovating than contract creating what marketers think of. So, some team of suits sits around and comes up with an idea that, "Gee, sounds plausible." Then they try to build it.
Whatever... that's just the facts.
As for Gumming up your Gut... I think we need, as Einstein so famously said, "Next level thinking..." not same.
The appetite is not just a brick in your tummy. There's an entire quadrant of the human that most diets leave out and that's one of nutrition itself.
They think in terms of stopping the hunger, like damning up a river to stop the water. They are prone to overlook the role of the nourishment or absence of in cravings, etc.
I've been in the business of health and fitness for 20+ years. I helped launch the first nutrition shakes in the late 80's, something that the national cancer institute started but could not complete.
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I share this not to promote but to be transperant and credible in that I know what I'm talking about and while it's a best-kept secret, I've long since done what these docs have yet to figure out they need to do.
Wishing them luck and that all people avoid injury at they experiment with the brick strategy. In the meantime, a leaner, lighter, more vibrant life can be found by those who choose not to wait, at FullStrength.com .
In Strength,
Shawn Phillips
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