I read an article in the Body & Soul dated 24th April by The Biggest Loser's Tiffany Hall.  It was discussing eating chocolate easter eggs. The following is an extract of the article.

"It's the sweet stuff in chocolate that causes weight gain.  Eating sugar pumps up your appetite and hits up the same neurotransmitters that activate the brain's pleasure state, which addictive drugs such as morphine and heroin do as well.  We have an appetite control centre in our brain called the hypothalamus, which reacts to four major appetite hormones.  Three of them tell us when we've had enough to eat. Every morsel of food stimulates the release of one or more of the "I'm stuffed" hormones once we've had enough.  But fructose foods including chocolate is invisible to these hormones.  Eating fructose is like eating invisible fat because it slips past your body's defences.  Your gut will process as much fructose as you put in your mouth - there's no limit.  It's converted straight to fatty acids and then body fat, without passing through any appetite control centres.  We can eat as much fructose as we fancy and never feel full - in fact we'd feel hungrier."

Of course, this is exactly what David has explained in his books but I thought it very interesting to find somebody else trying to get the message across. 

Bron W wrote: That is fantastic! After hearing so many times 'eat fruit if you want to be healthy'....


On that show about people who are too big to be on the Biggest Loser, the resident nutritionist was saying 'eat plenty of fruit' :(