Comments on: Calorie Learning: Background http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/02/22/calorie-learning-background/ Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method, the Shangri-La Diet, etc. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:31:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Tim Lundeen http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/02/22/calorie-learning-background/#comment-140040 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:40:10 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2008/02/22/calorie-learning-background/#comment-140040 This Siegel & Ramos paper is just superb (finally made it to the top of my reading list). Thanks for linking to it, fascinating and useful information. It certainly looks like one factor in food binging is the insulin spike (the conditioned compensatory response) that your brain learns to generate when you smell or eat familiar food, which happens before the carbohydrates are absorbed into your bloodstream. This causes a need for carbohydrate to balance the insulin, making it very hard to stop eating. This Siegel & Ramos paper is just superb (finally made it to the top of my reading list). Thanks for linking to it, fascinating and useful information.

It certainly looks like one factor in food binging is the insulin spike (the conditioned compensatory response) that your brain learns to generate when you smell or eat familiar food, which happens before the carbohydrates are absorbed into your bloodstream. This causes a need for carbohydrate to balance the insulin, making it very hard to stop eating.

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