...that if you always stop eating when you are 80% full, you will, on average, live a much longer life.
....that after you've eaten sufficient food, the stomach sends a message to the brain saying "stop eating - I'm full".
But this message takes 15 or 20 minutes to cover the distance between stomach and brain. That's why, if you keep eating until you feel full, you'll often feel over-full and bloated 15 minutes or so later.
A simple and effective way to lose weight is by reducing the size of your meals by 30 to 50%. You'll leave the table feeling hungry, but within 15 or 20 minutes your stomach will have had time to get its 'I'm full' message to the brain, and you'll no longer feel hungry, just comfortably satisfied.
I learnt this trick many years ago from an article in the Readers Digest. I tried it and it works.
Nemarluk was a good read as I recall.bunyip said:Ion L. Idriess
Not sure if this is the appropriate thread but I liked this definition of vegetarian, also taken from today's "Sunday Mail":
"Caloundra woman on an overseas flight recently asked for a vegetarian meal and was duly presented with a chicken dish. When she complained the flight attendant assured her it was indeed a vegetarian meal, pointint to the chicken proclaiming: 'It only eats grain.' "
Hi Julia, We did buy a corn fed free range chicken and like human vegans they are truly vegetarians, and tasted very good indeed.
KERRY O'BRIEN: Do you think there is scope for a real panic, a dangerous panic?
MARC FABER: Well, I think yes there is scope for a real panic and I think one of the time bombs we have and not too much has surfaced yet in that area is essentially derivatives, because I cannot believe that the financial sector declines as much as it has and so many companies or financial service companies go bust or are essentially out of business and that none of the derivatives player is badly affected. So I think that's something to keep an eye on.
KERRY O'BRIEN: Do you think America is already in recession?
MARC FABER: It's very difficult to interpret statistics that are doctored by the Government. But if you take the US economy and you take nominal GDP growth and then instead of taking say a consumer price index or a personal consumption expenditure index, as compiled by the US Government, if instead you take cost of living increases of a typical family then in real terms the economy has been in recession since last October. You can, for instance, look at the trade deficit it has been shrinking because it produced imports into the United States. You can look at the number of inbound containers into the US, it's down year on year, on the trucking index, rail loadings, so on and so forth. These are indicators you cannot cheat with and they all signal essentially that the US is already in recession.
KERRY O'BRIEN: How long do you believe that recession will last? How severe do you think it might be and how do you think it'll impact on the rest of the world including China?
MARC FABER: In general, I would say the economy in the US would be very sluggish and hardly any growth for a number of years.
KERRY O'BRIEN: And how do you think that will impact on the rest of the world?
MARC FABER: You know we can talk about the economies. The financial markets will move very different than the economies. You could have a strong economy in China and stocks tumbling, you could have a weak economy and stock going up. In general, I think that the emerging stock markets are actually quite vulnerable at the present time.
KERRY O'BRIEN: You've been to Australia recently which has its own market volatility and yet our economy inflation aside, is in pretty good shape. Can you understand why the market here has actually dropped significantly more than the market in the US which one might have thought would be more vulnerable?
MARC FABER: Yes, I agree. I mean in Australia we had huge declines in shares and if it hadn't been for BHP and Rio Tinto and some companies with a very heavy weight in the index, the indecision would probably be down 40 to 50 per cent. I mean I looked at several Australian stocks when I was in Australia. I was amazed how many stocks had dropped by more than 50 per cent.
KERRY O'BRIEN: Well can you understand why?
MARC FABER: Yes, I can understand why because markets are volatile and when they go up people pile in and they borrow money and they
leverage themselves on the up side and when the process of reversal comes and de-leveraging, people sell and they sell indiscriminately and also in Australia we had some players that were highly leveraged to the US real estate market and to all kinds of other asset markets around the world. And so when asset prices started to no longer go up, and the cost of borrowing went up, and lending standards tightened, shares got hit very hard.... etc
KERRY O'BRIEN: Without being a total pessimist, without being complete doctor doom and gloom, what is your worst case scenario?
MARC FABER: The worst case scenario is that, and I would not rule out this to be the case. Essentially the last 20 years we have this expansion of the financial sector and we have accelerating debt growth, the US has a large trade and current account deficit that throws at the present time roughly $800 billion into the world and that this has created what we call the global excess liquidity. Let's say the US consumer retrenches badly, the trade and current account deficit shrink, then international liquidity will shrink and that is very bad for all asset markets, not just for stock, it will also be bad for commodities.
Once commodity prices would decline it would obviously lead to some problems in the commodity producers of the world and also if the US consumer retrenches potentially it can lead to a slow down in production overseas in China, if combined with a slow down in China oil prices decline, it leads to a depression in the Middle East and in oil producing regions and after the global boom we had 2001 to 2007 during which essentially every country was growing except for Zimbabwe and that this global synchronised boom, which is unique in the history of capitalist, it never happened before that every country's growing rapidly, that this global boom is followed by a colossal global bust. That is the worst case scenario.
KERRY O'BRIEN: I do hope we're well short of that, Marc Faber. Thanks very much for talking with us.
MARC FABER: My pleasure.
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