Control Your Hunger With Flaxseeds

By Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS

For anyone trying to lose weight, eating right and exercising are sometimes only half the battle. If you eat too much - even if you’re eating healthful foods - you can still end up gaining weight. Fortunately, you can help control your hunger with a single tasty food.

You have probably heard of flaxseed oil, the best-known plant source of omega-3 fats. But flaxseeds themselves are even better for you - especially when it comes to curbing your appetite. In addition to omega-3s, one ounce of flaxseeds provides the added benefit of eight grams of fiber. The more fiber you eat at any meal or snack, the slower the rise in your blood sugar… which helps to keep the hunger hormones at bay.

Flaxseeds are easy to incorporate into your meals. Just toss a handful into salads, smoothies, or vegetable side dishes.

[Ed. Note: Dr. Jonny Bowden is a nationally known expert on weight loss, nutrition, and health.]

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Word to the Wise: Confabulation

"Confabulation" (kon-FAB-yuh-lay-shun) - from the Latin for "to talk together" - is the act of having an informal conversation. Psychologists use the word for a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered.

Example (as used by Jennifer Howard in Civilization): "Sigmund Freud, a stubborn, bullying interrogator of hysterical women, harangued his patients into building fantasies and traumas that fit into his grand narrative scheme, eliciting confabulations rather than actual memories."

Michael Masterson

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