Let me recount the chain of events today as I was posting about Vytorin
which then spilled over into cactus Hoodia as a diet medicine and then I
made the bold claim that there exists chemicals in other plants which
act like Hoodia in suppression of appetite. There is no guarantee that
such a plant other than Hoodia exists but probabilities favor the
existence of more than just one plant that suppresses human appetite.
Then I wondered whether cactus is acid or alkali and realized it was
acid then I wondered whether in my lifetime I had ever eaten any acid
foods that my appetite was at all suppressed.

Then I remembered that in my youth and well into my middle life that I
had gorged on citrus fruit nearly every day eating 4 to 10 oranges a day
and 1 or 2 grapefruits a day. But I remembered also that when I drank
grapefruit juice especially breakfast that I did not care to eat much as
opposed to orange juice.
I remember always picking away the white covering on grapefruits and
that the rind was especially horrible tasting.

So today I cut a piece of grapefruit rind the size of my thumb and
chewed it into tiny pieces and swallowed the liquid. Very very
astringent and bitter and acrid in taste. So bitter that it left a
burning like sensation in my mouth and throat for several hours
thereafter. I was about to swallow the entire chew but then the
bitterness was so pervasive that I spit out the chew. I weighed myself
and I was 138 lbs. I went out to do some work in the orchard and was not
hungry for 9 hours after eating the rind. And during that day of work it
felt as if I was on the verge of throwing-up or regurgitating only it
was a mild sense of throwing up. So this rind of grapefruit suppresses
the appetite because of the bitter mouth and that it takes many hours to
remove that bitterness and then the sensation of on the verge of
throwing-up all of which takes about 9 hours to remove and whilst there
suppresses the desire to eat anything.

I went to search the Internet to see if any researcher has found active
ingredients in grapefruit rinds that is diet suppressant. I found a site
that talks of an experiment on pigs given grapefruit fiber in their
diets and how it lowered cholesterol. But that study was with the whole
grapefruit. I wonder if a study on just grapefruit rinds would make pigs
less likely to eat.

The active ingredient in Hoodia cactus that suppresses appetite may
perhaps be found in grapefruit rinds. I say perhaps because it is a
unlikely.

I would use only "organic grapefruits" because the store ones usually
have sprays and coatings of phenol to preserve them longer on the
shelves.

I tried orange rinds and they are ineffective as compared to grapefruit.

I need to buy some "organic lemons" to see if their rinds is a diet
suppressant.

If I were faced with a Thanksgiving dinner on thursday and wanted to eat
just a little bit, then I would chew an organic grapefruit rind of about
the size of my thumb and swallow the mass after chewing it. Enough to
suppress my desire to eat but not too much to make me throw-up. In fact
if I eat some foods after taking the grapefruit rind that they tend to
remove the bitterness out of my mouth and losing the suppression effect.

So I need to find what chemical in grapefruit rinds posits the
bitterness in the mouth and throat and the chemical that makes the
stomach feel as though it is on the verge of throwing-up.

If grapefruit is a diet suppressant, then it is cheap and easily
obtained by anyone wanting to lose weight. Whenever one feels on the
verge of gorging or in a situation where eating too much is likely then
just slip into the mouth a rind of organic-grown-grapefruit and have the
next 8 to 9 hours temptation free.
Throughout that 9 hours today I had no desire to eat any good food that
came to mind such as icecream, chocolates, pies, cakes or cookies. All
of them were undesirable because my mouth was still bitter flavored and
my stomach kept feeling like throwing up.

No drug company would recount such a story because there is no millions
and billions of dollars of profit in it for them. Simply buy an organic
grapefruit and cut the rind into 30 pieces and have 30 days of dieting
ahead.

Over time the effect may wear off.

But this is intriguing science in that we have a problem of eating too
much food and a nice solution maybe finding a food that is what I call
"anti-food inducing" that is to have a food when eaten makes the
individual not want to eat any more food. So I am really amazed that a
solution like this can be found.

Archimedes Plutonium
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