Diet Food
Un-densified foods! A diet method may be possible that would allow
eating of virtually all foods while still losing weight! A way of
pre-processing food products may be possible to enable this.
There have been thousands of diets proposed during the past several
decades. Each has benefited some people and been worthless to
others. Here is an approach that is certain to benefit everyone
that uses it!
When we eat, we generally eat foods that have tastes that we enjoy.
That enjoyment is central to why we don't get bored with eating and
why we sometimes tend to overeat.
There is another bit of feedback that is sent to our brains when
we eat. That is related to nerve endings in our stomach, which
inform us regarding whether it is full or empty.
One of the most successful approaches to dieting is to eat smaller
portions, and to eat as leisurely as possible. In the same way
that children are told not to eat candy or snacks just before
a meal (because it ruins their appetites), a leisurely enjoyed meal
allows time for those stomach nerve endings to recognize the
presence of food there and to send a signal to the brain that it
is not necessary to eat any more.
This works for a lot of people, but consistent overeaters have two
other signals that are expected before ending a meal. First, a
feeling in the stomach of not just the presence of food, but a
truly full feeling, like what the rest of us experience after a
huge Thanksgiving dinner. Second, is the expectation of chewing
and swallowing a considerable quantity of food.
These last considerations are the inspiration for many companies
offering a vast variety of low-calorie, low-fat, or other low-
meals. Unfortunately, those foods often also have low-taste
and high price. They are not as enjoyable to eat. I suppose this
fact would keep people from overeating! Rather, people instead
tend to choose foods that taste batter (but which are not low-calorie.)
Now consider popcorn. It is actually corn kernels in which the
included moisture was quickly boiled, which makes the kernels
explode. Everything is still there, including the taste and the
nutrition, but there is now a lot of additional air inside it.
When you eat a half-can of corn you are still hungry, because the
VOLUME of corn you eat is limited. If, instead, you ate the same
number of kernels of popcorn, you will feel very full. Much of what
you ate was AIR, and you ate the same actual amount of corn, but you
feel very full.
Un-Densified Foods
This is the central idea of this new Diet Food invention. Nearly
any food could be put in a small chamber, which is suddenly evacuated
of air. This situation would make the piece of food suddenly expand
in size. When regular atmospheric pressure air is re-introduced
to the chamber, it fills in the new voids in the piece of food.
I call it Un-densified food. Let's say that the resultant
volume was twice what it started out at. In that case, the original
amount of food and nutrition and flavor will be present. An equal amount
of air is now present. This makes it so twice as much chewing and
swallowing is necessary to eat the same amount of food. The
psychological fulfillments are accomplished (a sufficient amount of
chewing and swallowing and the feeling of a full stomach). All
of the expected flavors are still present. Those flavors are
slightly diluted by the presence of the additional air, but a
little extra chewing and savoring will make up for that.
Full flavor, full psychological fulfillment of eating, less actual
food, almost infinite diversity of food types. A perfect diet!
Expanding various kinds of foods might require different methods.
For example, a dense apple will tend to shatter by the method
described above. For such a food, a slower depressurization
may work better. Other foods might be expandable by air injection
needles or other air injection methods.
Fortunately, the foods that seem to be most resistant to such
expansion, such as fruits and nuts, are some of the healthiest
and most nutritious foods available, so maybe they do not need
to be expanded.
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C Johnson, Physicist, Physics Degree from Univ of Chicago