Tag: Staying Healthy

Knowing When To Stop Eating

Dr. John Poothullil

Reading Time: 4 minutesYour brain informs you when to stop eating during a meal. Paying attention to your “satisfaction” (also called “satiation”) signals is just as important as being aware of your hunger signals.  During a meal, the brain receives messages from the mouth, the stomach, the intestines, and the blood—all of which combine to help it assess when enough nutrients have been consumed to satisfy the demand for nutrition from the body’s cells.  Like hunger, satiation signals are highly dependent on your nutritional status. At some meals, you’ll need to consume a…

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The Food Pyramid & Fighting Against The Grain

Dr. John Poothullil

Reading Time: 4 minutesShould I eat according to the 2023 Food Pyramid?  The first Food Pyramid was created in the 1970s in Sweden by a special committee to suggest nutritionally balanced meals at a reasonable cost. In 1992, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) introduced a Food Pyramid to recommend servings of each food group, which previous guides did not do.  The 2023 Food Pyramid modified the recommendations in an attempt to improve the health of Americans who continued to experience increasing incidences of cardiovascular diseases and Type 2 diabetes.  For example,…

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Dr. John Explains Hunger and “Eating Like A Toddler”

Dr. John Poothullil

Reading Time: 4 minutesTo understand hunger, you don’t need to look any further than the mechanism by which babies regulate their consumption of milk, or toddlers regulate their consumption of food. If you think about it, both infants and toddlers decide on their own when to eat, what to eat, and how much to eat to thrive physically, mentally, and emotionally. When you were an infant and then a toddler, this is what you did. So today, to lose weight, you need to alter your eating habits, so you can eat as you…

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Soaring U.S. Healthcare Costs Part 2: The Proposal

Dr. John Poothullil

Reading Time: 5 minutesIn this article, I my proposal for how we can reduce the costs of healthcare by implementing a system of periodic assessments of CPT codes and costs. I am not suggesting that all CPT codes are unnecessary or wasteful. My point is that there is a lack of periodic reassessment of healthcare costs associated with caring for people with Type 2 diabetes. Such a reassessment would likely find better explanations for what causes high blood sugar and diabetes in adults and better, less costly ways to treat it. Two basic…

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