I sink into one of the most exciting series of studies I’ve ever encountered.
Anyone can lose weight by eating less food. Anyone can starve thin. Lingering diets are rarely viable, however, since the hunger that lead us to eat. We feel unhappy and unbearable in low -calorie diets. We have some level of voluntary control, of course, but our deep instinctual movements can win in the end.
For example, we can consciously keep our breath. Try it now. How long can you go before your body’s self -preservation mechanisms undertake and flood your deliberate intention not to breathe? Our body has our best interests in the heart and is very smart to allow us to drown – or starve on this. If our body was really smart, but how could it let us become obese? Why does our body not realize when we are very heavy and allow us to be slimmed down? We may be very aware of our bodies and is actively trying to help, but we somehow undermine these efforts. How could we try this theory to see if this is true?
So many variables come in choosing What we eat and how much. “The diet process involves a complex mix of normal, psychological, cultural and aesthetic appreciation.” To strip all of this and stick to the normal variable only, the researchers at Columbia University designed a series of famous experiments using a “food distribution device”. The term “food” is used very loose here. As you can see at 2:02 in my video Weighing 200 pounds without hungerthe researchers’ nutrition machine were A tube is connected to a pump that gave a bite of mild wet formula every time a button was pushed. Research participants were instructed to eat as much as they wanted at all times. In this way, consumption was reduced only to elementary hunger. Without the usual traps of “sociality”, the meal ceremony and the pleasures of the palate, how much would people lead to eat?
Put a normal weight on this scenario, and something remarkable happens. Day by day, week after week, with no more hunger to guide them, they eat just as needed, keeping their weight perfectly, as shown below at 2:36 in my video.
These necessary About 3,000 calories a day, and this is how much they gave them unknowingly. Their bodies just seemed to know how many times you press this button, as shown here at 2:48 in my video.
Put A person with obesity in the same scenario, and something even more remarkable happens. Driven by hunger alone, with the enjoyment of eating stripped away, they embrace wildly, giving themselves only 275 calories a day, overall. They could eat as much as they wanted, but they were not hungry. It is as if their body knew how massively overweight it was, so they called their natural hunger to almost nothing. A participant started the study at 400 pounds and lost weight. After 252 days drinking mild liquid, lost 200kg, as you can see here at 3:35 in my video.
This innovative discovery was initially interpreted To mean that obesity is not caused by any metabolic disorder that leads people to exceed. In fact, the study proposed just the opposite. Instead, over -consumption appeared to be a function of the importance of foods associated with food, “in addition to its use as fuel”, either as a source of pleasure or as a relief of boredom or anxiety. In this way, obesity seemed more psychological than physics. Later experiments with the power supply, however, twist Such perceptions on their heads once again.
When the researchers secretly doubled the calories of the formula given to Lean study participants, they unconsciously reduced their consumption in half to continue to keep their weight perfectly, as shown here at 4:24 in my video. Their bodies in some way detected The change in calorie load and sent signals to the brain to press the button half so often to compensate. Amazing!
When the same thing happened with people with obesity, however, nothing changed. They continued to rely drastically as before. Their body seems incapable of detecting or reacting to the change in calorie load, indicating a normal inability to adjust the intake, as shown below at 4:40 in my video. 
Can the brains of people with obesity somewhat is Non -sensitive in internal saturation signals? We do not know if it is a cause or effect. Maybe that’s why they are obese in the first place, or maybe the body knows how obese it is and closes the movement of hunger, regardless of the calorie concentration. Indeed, obesity participants continued to lose weight firmly the weight eating from the machine, regardless of calorie concentration and food distributed, as you can see here at 5:19 in my video. 
It would be interesting to see if they reiterated the opportunity to respond to changing the calorie intake as soon as they reached their ideal weight. Regardless of this, what can we apply from these notable studies to facilitate the loss of weight in the real world? We will just explore this question next.
