Well now, that’s interesting….

Today I was reading a post on Ars Technica about weight loss and found a rather odd comment:

Posted October 04, 2006 @ 3:05PM by geoff314
Seth Roberts at UC Berkeley has a really interesting hypothesis about the effect of food flavorings on the body’s set point (which in turn controls appetite): http://sethroberts.net/science/

He’s got a bunch of people losing lots of weight by ingesting flavorless calories periodically during the day. It’s all anecdotal at this point (with some interesting research behind it, though), but I imagine that at some point some clinical trials will be done.

I can’t see big pharma getting too excited about weight loss from substances you can get for a penny a dose in the grocery store…

So I spent a few hours looking around at the forums and found some rather interesting info, especially this video. Of note, there’s a guy who also lives in Salt Lake and everyone says he’s “half the man he used to be”

I could live with that.

So I stopped by Wal-mart on the way home and grabbed a bottle of Extra Light (tasting) Olive Oil and some granulated sugar. We’ll see how it goes. I decided to start running again - in High-school (sophomore year) we did running every other day. It started with mostly walking and a minute or two of running thrown in for measure. As time went on the walking decreased and the running increased until we were running for 38 minutes straight. Monday I programmed the treadmill and for the last 3 days I ran while watching the BattleStar Galactica Mini-series (with commentary at first but it’s been so long I switched to normal audio) on DVD. I’m currently 276 lbs. I can only hope it’s down from here!

Some good info can also be found on the Wikipedia Entry

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