HUNGER OR APPETITE?
Hunger and appetite are two different manifestations of the human body. Hunger is a normal requirement, but appetite is an abnormal desire to eat. Hunger is similar to the redden cheeks of the healthy child and appetite is the face full of makeup of the modern women.
It is very difficult to explain to the persons who enter adulthood, the difference between the sensations and symptoms of hunger and of appetite, because most of the people have their natural taste and instinctive hunger so perverted of appetite, that over years, they no longer feel the sensation of hunger, forgetting in general what sense it really is.
However, most people use both terms as if they were synonymous. Let us examine in what consists the difference.
For example let us start with thirst. We all know how the feeling of natural healthy thirst expresses, and which determines us do drink cold water.
Natural thirst entirely resembles with natural hunger.
We often happen to hear someone saying that he is dying of thirst or that he has neck burns for a glass the whisky, or beer. If they would really feel natural thirst, these people would first like to have a glass of cold water, given that only cold water could appease their thirst.
However, water will never appease the thirst of those who were accustomed to alcoholic drinks. Why? It is very simple - because they do not feel a natural thirst, but a desire, an appetite, a result of the perverted feeling. Once there is appetite it means that a habit has been created, which requires satisfaction.
The appetite is an exaggerated skill of the feeling of hunger and thirst and has nothing common with real hunger or thirst.
Modern man has adopted the wrong habit of consuming alcohol, tobacco, opium, cocaine and became addicted to them. Some arrive at a stage where they sell the children’s clothes to buy alcohol.
Animals really possess that sense of hunger that man distorts, feeding the children with cookies or other items falsely called food.
Those who go to country side live in the middle of nature, work and do physical effort, discover the true feeling of hunger, eat then with lust, as hungry scholars do, self-intoxicated by a pleasure that they have not tried for many years.
The newspapers wrote once about the sinking of a company of rich man find offshore on a yacht, in a journey of pleasure. They had to live ten concluded days completely hungry on a deserted island. When they were found, they were looking more healthy than before. Rosy-cheeked, with bright eyes and owners of a precious gift - natural hunger. Some of them suffered from several years of dyspepsia, ten days of fast quite healed them. Since they had lived almost starving all this time, all the toxic products from their bodies were eliminated.
If man will begin to cultivate its true hunger and will get rid of appetite, he will feel again the same pleasure for food that he felt during childhood.
NOURISHMENT
The food choice problem is a controversial topic – it is hard to adopt a regime that totally excludes meat, when you used it almost all life. Equally difficult is trying to eat only vegetables, after you got used eating cooked or fried food.
My motto is that all there is too much or too little is dangerous for the body. To try to eat only meat or only vegetables will create an imbalance in the body because we know that meat has not the necessary vitamins and neither the vegetables have high nutritional value.
The midway is the most healthy, the food to be as varied as possible, to stay away from fats, to avoid pork, to eat fish and lots of vegetables, not to fill your stomach with heavy foods and then take pills. Do not refuse fruits in particular, and note that the nature conceived medicinal vegetable having miraculous effects for our body for instance garlic and onion.
It is known that in Christopher Columbus’s last expedition to the sea, nearly all sailors died tortured by diseases, and only one crew remained perfectly healthy, for the sailors had on their boat o load of garlic and ate all that time.
Anti aging diet
Watermelon diet
Ever wondered why obesity is so rare in Asia and Africa? Poverty may not be the only answer. Some have suggested that it's partly because people on these continents eat surprisingly large amounts of watermelon. (Watermelon is native to Africa, by the way.)
Besides filling you up with water (a well proven weight-loss strategy), watermelon is so rich in vitamins and minerals that some say it should be stored in your medicine chest. (It won't fit, of course, but that is about to change.) Hence, eating watermelon while you're on a low-calorie diet will help you make sure you get enough of certain key nutrients.
What is the Watermelon Diet?
There is no official Watermelon Diet, but any diet that includes a lot of watermelon will qualify. And any particular watermelon diet will help you lose weight for the same reason any other watermelon diet will: because it replaces part of the volume of your food with water, which contains no calories and yet makes you feel full. (There's a whole new science devoted to this principle; it's called volumetrics.)
How much watermelon is "a lot?" That depends on how fast you want to lose weight. The average American diet contains 150 calories per ounce. Replace three ounces with watermelon at 8 calories per ounce and you save about 426 calories a day—enough to lose 3.7 pounds a month or 44 pounds a year. Double that to six ounces and you'll lose weight at twice the speed.
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The Watermelon Diet sounds amazingly simple and effective, doesn't it? But wait—it gets even better.
A Super Food
Besides being a wonderful choice for dieters, watermelon is unusually nutritious. Its delectable flesh has no cholesterol and virtually no fat (almost none of which is saturated)—a stellar accomplishment for a food often served as a dessert at picnics.
Your watermelon diet will also give you a lot of potassium and vitamins A, C, and B6. And because watermelon is 92-percent water, it goes a long way toward satisfying your daily H2O requirement.
Move Over, Tomatoes!
Recent research shows yet another marvelous characteristic: Watermelon contains more lycopene than any other fresh fruit or vegetable. Lycopene, besides being the red pigment that gives the flesh its color, is an antioxidant known to prevent cancer. Studies have shown that people who get lots of lycopene have a lower risk of prostate, uterine, and esophageal tumors.
Tomatoes have received the lion's share of attention when it comes to lycopene, even though a one-cup serving contains far less (4 milligrams vs. 9) than a one-cup serving of watermelon does.
Watermelon is also listed by the American Heart Association as a top food for cardiovascular health.
"Watermelon is practically a multivitamin unto itself," says Samantha Winters, a spokeswoman for the National Watermelon Promotion Board.
For all of these reasons—and because it's a rare individual who doesn't love a ripe, red, juicy wedge of watermelon—DietPower long ago declared this miracle fruit one of "The 10 Best Foods."
But Wait, There's More!
This just in: A researcher at Texas A&M University reports that watermelon may have a Viagra-like effect on men.
Watermelon contains citrulline, an amino acid that dilates blood vessels in the same way as drugs for treating erectile dysfunction. Scientists have known about the citrulline for years, but until recently they thought most of it was in the rind. Now they've discovered that the flesh contains more than previously thought.
This doesn't mean that eating watermelon will produce an erection, since the amount of citrulline is still relatively low. But it probably can't hurt. And if you eat the rind, too.... (Watermelon pickles, anyone?)
For deeper insight into this potential benefit,
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A Work in Progress
Watermelon isn't perfect. One big problem if you're on a watermelon diet is the fruit's bulkiness. Another is telling when a watermelon is ripe.
If you've ever had a watermelon roll off the kitchen counter when you weren't watching, you'll appreciate this news: the Japanese have created a cube-shaped watermelon. (
Click here to see it.)
Meanwhile, American growers are making watermelons smaller and smaller. In part, this stems (no pun intended) from the craze to make watermelons seedless. Melons without seeds are smaller and rounder than their seedy cousins.
The technology for growing seedless melons has been around for half a century, but popular for only the last 20 years or so, says Warren Roberts, a watermelon expert and an associate professor of horticulture at Oklahoma State University. Today, one-third to one-half of all watermelons sold in the United States are seedless, and in California the rate is seven in eight.
The melon miniaturist movement continues. In California, one of the leading producers of watermelons (Florida is the biggest), stores will soon be stocked with melons the size of cantaloupes. "As family size decreases, consumers want something smaller," says Dana Abercrombie, director of the California-Arizona Watermelon Association.
The "personal" watermelon will weigh about two or three pounds. It should be perfect for folks on a watermelon diet. "It's just a one-meal melon," Abercrombie says "—something you can cut in half and say, 'Here, Honey, you eat this.'"
Is That Melon Ripe?
Until the tiny melon gets a foothold, watermelon dieters will have to keep looking for the best larger ones. But how do you tell when a watermelon is ripe?
Most experts agree you should start with the color of the rind. It should be a dull green, depending on the variety—but more importantly, the side that has lain on the ground during ripening should be creamy yellow. If it's white, it's not ripe.
Another major clue is the vine. If a stem is still attached, it should be brown. If it's green, put the melon back.
Its density should also give it away. "You should pick it up and say, 'Oh, that's heavier than I thought it should be,'" says Abercrombie. Heaviness means the melon has absorbed a goodly amount of water.
Kicking the Tires
There is no consensus about the "thump" test. Abercrombie recommends slapping with the palm of your hand, not your knuckle. "You should hear a hollow, reverberating sound, like in a basketball." If the melon pings, it's not ripe, she says.
Many people swear by the acoustic method, but others say it's like kicking the tires on a car. "It makes you feel good when you do it, but you don't know what it will accomplish," says Roberts, the Oklahoma State expert. Only an experienced ear can tell the difference, he says.
"A lot of people talk about that, but they can't really tell you what they're listening for," says Winters of the national board. If you're not sure, you can always ask the grocer to cut it for you.
Once you have the melon home, it will keep at room temperature for two to three weeks. (Even a big one won't have to last that long if you're on a watermelon diet, however.) After you've cut into a melon, of course, it needs to go in the fridge. Or you can take care of it the way Roberts does. "I like to cut it open, eat the heart out, and then go on to another melon."
