Does Caffeine Abate Your Appetite?
There has been a lot of debate about whether caffeine is a good appetite suppressant or not. I feel that it is in some ways. But I also feel there are times when I drink something that is caffeinated and it actually fuels my appetite? How could this be?
Well, I think it depends on where you are in your blood sugar levels at the time you actually imbibe in the caffeinated treat. For me, if I drink coffee on an empty stomach, it is likely to act as a “tide me over” til I can get some food in me. That’s usually the first thing I do in the morning, and it really doesn’t make me hungry, it just makes me feel happy!
But if I drink coffee after I’ve already eaten and maybe I’m not full but I’m also not completely void of all food in my stomach, I feel like it actually can make me more hungry. For most people, caffeine does act as an appetite decreaser, and that is why it is included in just about every diet supplement under the sun today.
There is validity to it. However, there is also validity to the fact that once you crash off of one of these highly energized supplements, you may become totally ravenous, eating everything in sight and essentially undoing the entire day you went with eating the right things from being on the supplement and not eating a lot.
Using caffeine as a means to abate hunger is a tricky thing. It can definitely work for a while, but you have to be careful how much you’re taking in and how often as it is a highly addictive substance. I’ve noticed that if I even wait a few hours before having my typical morning coffee, I can a banging headache that is very hard to get rid of.
Use it wisely, and don’t abuse it, and it can be a terrific way to help control appetite.
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Vitamin D and Blood Sugar
Well, well. Vitamin D is, after all, turning out to be quite the wonder vitamin. Vitamin D, a very easily obtained vitamin which is also fairly inexpensive in pill form, and can be freely obtained via sunlight exposure, has long been thought to be a pivotal part of preventing cancer, helping to maintain bone density, and helping to prevent asthma and heart disease, among a host of many other health benefits.
After the villification of the sunlight as a cancer causing agent, a lot of research has instead pointed to combining sunlight with hazardous chemical-laced sunscreens and tanning products as a major contributor as well. This is not to say that excessive exposure to sunlight cannot cause skin cancer.
It most certainly can. However, it seems more and more likely that a combination of not having enough vitamin D circulating in the blood stream and antioxidants, may be more the culprit than the sunlight itself in the burning and cell damage done on some people from the sun.
Researchers in Australia are also now uncovering significant evidence that vitamin D levels circulating in the blood may be linked to blood sugar levels remaining stable. They found a correlation between low vitamin D levels and diabetes, showing that those with low vitamin D levels had over a 50% higher chance of developing diabetes.
It is not known exactly why vitamin D seems to protect people from developing diabetes throughout their lives. Perhaps we will know why in our lifetime, this vitamin seems to be so pivotal to so many human body functions, including now diabetes prevention.
I must say that since I have been taking vitamin D and getting artificial sunlight via a UVB tanning booth twice a week, I have not gotten sick once. So I firmly believe that vitamin D levels contribute heavily to an awesome immune response, among a huge range of health benefits.
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