A question that I seem to get often is "are there any safe appetite suppressants?" And usually there is an advertisement that they have read or some bizarre herbal remedy that is supposed to cure all their weight issues with by taking a pill.
However, while I do not suggest any of those products or herbal remedies; (in fact I would suggest that you will benefit your body more if you run in the opposite direction) but there is one natural appetite suppressant that occurs naturally in apples. Apples have a lot of phytochemicals that benefit the body and they just happen to help suppress the appetite a bit. In college I had an interesting discovery. I could buy a large Fugi Apple(my favorite) and a orange from the grocery store and if I ate the orange first I could then finish off the apple or at least be close to it. However, if i ate the apple first I would feel full enough that I wouldn't feel hungry enough to want to peel the orange.
Now granted I would pick out the largest Fugi apple I could find because they were my favorite. But I would find it would hold me over if I didn't have time to go and get lunch till much later in the day. Later one of my wellness professors talked about the benefits of doing an "apple fast" to reset the metabolism for a day. While I don't think I'll be signing up for an apple fast anytime soon I think the old saying has more benefits than we give it credit. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. While it may not keep the doctor away you my find that it has a positive impact on the waist line over time.
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