Let me start off by saying that I have a very large appetite and can put down large amounds of food, and be hungry not too long later.
I normally bring a loaf of bread, jam, and peanutbutter to work and make a couple of sandwiches to eat, and I will feel satisfied. The other day I ran out of bread, and I know that protien is supposed to make you feel full, so I took down a couple spoonfulls of PB and felt very full almost immediately. On top of that, I will feel full for a few hours afterwards.
My thinking is that the PB is very dense, so while it seems that I am not eating much by volume, it is actually a significant amount. Or, my body knows that it is a very calorie dense food, and reduces my hunger.
Am I on the right track?
Did you mean peanut butter?
Some articles suggest having a slice of bread with peanut butter before going to a party, or some such. Supposedly this will help to prevent you from hogging the buffet table until you are so round you have to roll over to the couch.
I can’t find it right now, but there was a story on NPR within the last month or so that remarked on a study of nuts & calorie intake. It seemed that people who ate nuts for a snack would experience high satiety and reduce calorie intake in their next meal. I hope that is a somewhat reasonable summary. Anyone remember hearing this?
Nuts are a remarkable dietary aid. A small handful, reasonable in calories and fat, will go a long ways towards satisfying a hunger craving. If you replace junk food snacking with unsalted nuts, you can end up eating far less overall and reducing your intake of crap foods.
Peanut butter can also keep your stomach from being upset when at sea in rough weather, but it can also clog you up.
We had a ten day trip from San Diego to Alaska on a round bottom diesel submarine and we had to go on the surface due to the weather being force 8 to 9. One of the new sailors got sea sick and ate only peanut butter and crackers for the whole trip.
We get to Adak Island and he complains of stomach pains, right? So the corpsman takes him over to the NAS hospital and they weigh him and give him an enema.
They weighed him again afterwards and he lost 8 lbs … we called it Thornton’s 8lb pound baby. 