Pine Nuts

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Folks in this part of the world have been using Pine Nuts in dozens and

dozens of daily dishes for many hundreds of years. We eat a fair amount

ourselves .. weekly. :-) Butch

 

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Magic? This Seed Suppresses Appetite

 

This is why an appetite suppressant is so great: What you don't eat now,

you won't need to lose later. Nature may have provided us with an

appetite suppressant that doesn't come as a chemically laced pill: the

pine nut.

 

The oil from the pine nut--which, despite its name is really a

seed--offers a 29 percent reduction in the desire to eat and a 36

percent drop in food intake, according to a randomized, double-blind

cross-over trial conducted by Lipid Nutrition, a division of Loders

Croklaan, of the Netherlands. For this experiment with 18 overweight

women, they used 3-gram capsules of PinnoThin, a product marketed by

Lipid Nutrition.

 

Commonly used in pesto and other dishes, pine nuts initiate the release

of an appetite-suppressing hormone called cholecystokinin (CCK). The

researchers found that Korean pine nuts, which have been part of our

diet since before ancient Greek and Roman times, stimulated two

well-known appetite-suppressing peptide hormones at the same time that

the overweight women reported they were experiencing a significantly

reduced desire to eat. This occurred only 30 minutes after ingestion.

Best of all it worked for about four hours, sending signals of satiation

to the brain that diminished the desire to eat.

 

How does it work? Once the PinnoThin reaches the stomach, it stimulates

the hormone CCK, which is then released into the gut. As CCK is

increased in the bloodstream, it quenches the desire to eat.

 

It's important to note that the researchers did not examine the effects

of long-term use of pine nut oil as a weight loss aid or weight changes

in those who used it.

 

The study findings were reported to meetings of the American

Physiological Society and the American Chemical Society.