Important Research On Diet & Weight Loss Part 2

June 2, 2009
Interview with Nancy Snyderman, M.D. author of Diet Myths That Keep Us Fat

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Mike Carruthers:
People who eat fast tend to be overweight, why? Well when you eat slower your taste buds get bored.

Nancy Snyderman, M.D.:
The new sense of a food, the texture and the taste of it after about the third bite or after about twenty minutes your taste buds go, "Oh yeah, been there, done that." And then the food doesn't taste so good anymore.

Dr. Nancy Snyderman, Chief Medical Correspondent for NBC News and author of the book Diet Myths That Keep Us Fat

But if you wolf it down in big chunks you basically bypass your taste buds and they never even get a chance to react.

It's a common belief that if you eat something late at night it will make you fatter.

But you know what, it's not true. It's like if you deposit money in your checking account at eight o' clock at night versus eight o'clock in the morning you still have the same amount by midnight. It's the same thing with your body so if you want to lose weight you have to expend more than you're taking in.

If you really want to lose weight Dr. Snyderman says build up your muscle, which by the way does not weigh more than fat.

Muscle is denser - it does not weigh more but it does burn more calories so as you replace fat with muscle, muscle burns fifty calories (a pound of muscle burns fifty calories every hour) compared to fat which only burns three calories. So you become more of a metabolic machine as you drop the weight and put on muscle.

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