The Third Anticipation

Anticipation had been cited as capable of increasing appetite. But even with anticipation no appetite may increase when the third type of fiber called resistant starch is added into your meal. Although we have left out the benefits of resistant starch in our previous article because of spatial constraints, this week will disclose what so far medical researchers has found out.

“IF YOU cannot bite, do not show your teeth,” Jennifer Roberson advised in her Highlander book, Scotland the Brave (1996). Biting is one thing; throwing off the bad that comes with the biting is another.

We covered the resistant starch in a previous article but have to leave off on its health benefits.

First, the Anderson study in 2010 found out that resistant starch can specifically protect against colorectal cancer. It has also been found to reduce the intestinal crypt length so that after an average of 29 months of intake developing cancer cells in the gastrointestinal tract, even those lesions that been already cancerous, disappeared.

Second, resistant starch helps in managing excess weight through different processes such as fortifying of food with fiber, reducing caloric content of foods, initiating satiety fast, degrading fat and impact on stored fat.

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This article appears in SunStar Cebu newspaper on 23 January 2003.

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