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I have a grapefruit-scented candle that I like to sniff during the day at work. I can't light it, but the scent is still strong enough to enjoy. I remember when I was younger eating grapefruit tablets as an appetite-suppressant and hadn't thought about them in a long time.
Yesterday I was eating one of those cups of grapefruit you can get at the grocery store for about a buck and realized later that I'd felt full for a long time afterward. So... I have to do the science, right? I found this article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15862904
Skim it and read the last sentence (which is the only truly intelligible sentence). I'll make it easy for you: "Thus, the scent of grapefruit oil, and particularly its primary component limonene, affects autonomic nerves, enhances lipolysis through a histaminergic response, and reduces appetite and body weight."
Grapefruit and its oils help reduce appetite and break down fatty acids. I'm in! I actually like grapefruit, so I'm encouraged to seek out more of it. I just like that I can sniff my candle during the day and curb some hunger pains. It was working for me before I read the article, so I know it works, at least for me.
Diet Calendar Entries for 20 July 2018:
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1721 kcal
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Fat: 49.20g | Prot: 92.60g | Carb: 232.01g.
Breakfast: Milk (2% Lowfat with Added Vitamin A), Quaker Instant Oatmeal - Lower Sugar Maple & Brown Sugar, Good Earth Sweet and Spicy Tea. Lunch: Dr. Pepper Diet Dr. Pepper (Can), Carl Buddig Honey Roasted Turkey, Grimmway Farms Petite Carrots, Daisy Low Fat 2% Small Curd Cottage Cheese. Dinner: Beef T-Bone Steak (Trimmed to 1/4" Fat), Corn, Grimmway Farms Petite Carrots, Onions, Nissin Cup Noodles Chicken Flavor. Snacks/Other: Milk (2% Lowfat with Added Vitamin A), First Street Raisin Granola with Almonds, Snyder's of Hanover Wholey Cheese, Jack Link's Original Beef Jerky, Pineapple. more...
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2238 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Cooking - 20 minutes, Walking (slow) - 2/mph - 20 minutes, Desk Work - 8 hours, Watching TV/Computer - 2 hours, Resting - 5 hours and 20 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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