Comments on: Call Four – Cravings

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:56:40 +0000

As a confessed sugar addict, I found it interesting to learn that the hormones in our body affect our cravings for the sweet taste. An article in The Economist explains that scientists have isolated hormones that affect our palate’s sensitivity to sugar.

At Kyushu University in Japan, they researched the effects of leptin, a hormone that regulates appetite and metabolism and found that when leptin levels are low, we are more sensitive to sugar, which means something tastes sweeter than when our leptin levels are low. The level of the hormone increases over the day. This might explain why we tend to eat lots of sugar in the morning….for me I always have to have a piece of fruit which makes sense.

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:54:35 +0000

Thank you John and Sandra for your comments and appreciation.

By: Sandra Penny

Sandra Penny — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 06:31:33 +0000

It was a pleasure for me to participate in this on-line course. I found the informal co-host conversational style of the presentations kept everything interesting and flowing, and the time just flew. sometimes there was so much material I wanted to remember that I certainly would have welcomed even more summaries of content to reinforce my learning.
The homework suceeded in getting me involved with the new information and I particularly liked the Food & Activity Logs and the analysis was very revealing. It felt like the intention-setting allowed the content to be individualized and the flexible and gentle approach that you encouraged kept change manageable.
I liked the variety of homework and would never have thought you could include some on-line “food preparation”….. a real cooking class in cyberspace.

I was at a very “teachable” point for this course so gobbled everything up, and will keep working with the principles I learned. I have enjoyed so many wonderful new tastes and have become quite creative with both buying and creating with what I then find in the frig and kitchen. I am using many more herbs and spices and we are buying organic about 60% of the time. The produce is great here in Arizona as we are very near the Mexican border. I only had that one “iffy” experience with an organic cucumber. I am certainly including many more good fats in our diet as well.

I have no real suggestions other than more summaries of weekly material so rather than focusing on taking notes so as to not miss anything I could participate more while on line. One hour worked well for me and I had no difficulty calling into the conference. Many thanks to both Randy & Diana for an interesting and stimulating course, and I will await your posting of the cookbook being available. Namaste!

By: John Prokopchuk

John Prokopchuk — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:36:16 +0000

Hi Randy and Diana,
Thanks for sending us the information dealing with cravings.

We have taken part in your last 3 classes but missed the first one due to my error on the time.

The five answers re.the Feb. 17 was submited,I did not leave myself a copy and it looks like you did not recieve it or did you recieve it?

These three sessions were an excellent reminder to us of the classes we have taken,but lately we have not been following.