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Does eating a higher carb diet make you more full?

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> In all, sixty-five overweight and obese males (n 26) and females (n 39) were recruited onto this randomised, cross-over design study. Descriptive characteristics of participants are displayed in Table 1. All participants were non-smokers, physically inactive (≤2 h/week of exercise over the previous 6 months), weight stable (±2 kg for the previous 3 months) and not taking medication known to affect metabolism or appetite.

I don’t see anything about the backgrounds of the participants. Of the people I know it seems the people who grew up eating rice are more satiated by carbs while those who ate more meat centric diets are more satiated by meat.

Nutrition is super complicated though. There are effects of genetic background and the way digestion is impacted by the microbiome which is itself dependent on the person’s early life. There are hormonal and microbiome feedback loops that affect digestion and feelings. There are immune system changes triggered by obesity that don’t quickly recover even with weight loss.

The basic science around it is super interesting and valuable but taking action based on any one study is not likely to have a positive outcome.

Both of these meals seem crazy to me. Their dinner is: pizza, bread, crisps, shortbread, cookies. Every meal includes 1-3 snacks, and all of them include fluffy white bread.

>pizza, bread, crisps, shortbread, cookies

Crazy delicious.

I noticed this as well. It seems as if they were trying to control the meals in terms of major identifiable items with less obvious items being the variables that would make the meal HFLC/LFHC. Seems like a understandable method to me given the hypothesis. They were testing the macros while keeping the meals "looking" similar . I wonder, if it weren't snacks, pizza, bread, crips, biscuits/cookie based would it be vastly different.

My belief going into it is that changing them would have had an impact. The results of both groups I imagine are confounded by the effects of all of those easily and quickly digestible carbs.

To say nothing of the assumption undermining this change that while a calorie may not be a calorie, a gram of protein is a gram of protein and a gram of fat is a gram of fat.

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