You gain less weight if you liquefy your food in a blender than you would eating the same quantity of that food prepared normally. Your body absorbs less calories because it doesn't taste as good. There was a good writeup of this in Emotional Intelligence, and the people who advocate the Shangri La diet mention it in a lot of their writing as well.
"The researchers say that it holds promise for mind set related weight loss. However, since you now know about the study, it'll never apply to you. Sorry. "
I don't know about that. Whenever I take aspirin, I feel the effect of it immediately, well aware that it hasn't had the time required to enter my bloodstream. I once even repeated the words "placebo effect, placebo effect" aloud as my headache vanished.
For example, Brody notes one study where researchers gave asthmatic patients a drug that actually makes asthma worse. When they gave the drug to the patients, they told them that it relieves asthma.
Nice, just nice. Remind me never to participate in a research study.
OR, alternatively, the US Surgeon General's advice is not really that great, and/or the minimum wage working poor maids can't possibly eat healthy in their money and time poor lifestyles.
You gain less weight if you liquefy your food in a blender than you would eating the same quantity of that food prepared normally. Your body absorbs less calories because it doesn't taste as good. There was a good writeup of this in Emotional Intelligence, and the people who advocate the Shangri La diet mention it in a lot of their writing as well.