Thanksgiving Talk & Cold Weather Hunger

Having Thanksgiving with the family? Dangerous Dave talks about subjects you should avoid to make it a happier holiday. Plus, cold weather makes us hungry and what we can do about it.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the din with dangerous deed. Well,
we would rather deal with next Thursday, your uncle who
won't stop talking politics, or a bunch of little kids
who can't stand still. Forty seven percent of Americans saying
sitting at the kids table sounds more appealing than ever
this Thanksgiving. Millennials tend to agree at sixty two percent,

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a wine company commissioned to poll, which is kind of fitting.
A lot of people lean on alcohol through the Thanksgiving dinner,
but it's also responsible for a lot of those fights
across the table. According to a survey, top ten topics
we're hoping to avoid during Thanksgiving politics, money, appearance or weight, religion,
their ex mental health worker, career issues, personal struggles, current

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relationship status, and other family members. I guess trying to
avoid bashing or gossiping about somebody who hasn't there. It
could cause a fight or just bring down the mood. So,
you know, just let's keep it light this Thanksgiving. Let's
talk about the fact that we're together, talk about good memories,
and past the damn turkey deeper in the two. These

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last few months of the year are filled with leftover
Halloween candy, gravy sweets, and maybe all the weight gain
isn't your fault. Right. The site Study Finds has an
article on how cold weather makes us crave food. Some
of it comes down to biologies, not just lack of willpower.
The average person gains one to two pounds during the
coldest months of the year, partly because the body wants

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it to. Cold weather triggers hormonal changes, makes you hunger.
Ear prevent you from feeling full less. Sunlight doesn't help either.
It lowers dopamine and serotonin levels, which makes us crave
more carbs. It doesn't mean we have to gain weight, though.
There's a few science backed ways to suppress your winter appetite.
They include spicing up your meals. The compound that makes

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pepper's hot can suppress hunger and also make you eat less.
It also boosts your metabolism a little. Start with fiber.
The order you eat things matters. Eating vegetables and other
high fiber foods slows down digestion, makes you feel full faster.
Eat some dark chocolates. The bitter compounds tells your body
it's time to stop eating. Anything that says seventy percent
cocoa or higher should work. Eat protein for breakfast. It

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takes longer to digest than carb heavy things like cereal,
so you feel full longer. Healthy options like Greek yogat,
by the way, are better than bacon. Add omega three
is they're in fish. They also are in seeds and walnuts.
They enhance things called leptin sensitivity. It's a hormone that
tells your brain that you're full and not hungry anymore.
Also use smaller plates. It sounds dumb, but studies have

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shown it tricks your brain into thinking you ate more
than you really did, and finally, drink lots of water.
Sometimes we feel hungry when we're actually thirsty. Plus it
makes you feel full. A study found people automatically ate
less if they drink a big glass of water thirty
minutes before the meal. I try to drink water before
the meal. Well, technically it's water with barley and hops

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to me again for another episode of Deeper in the
Den with Dangerous daved like year