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  • This is because fiber slows the rate at which food enters your bloodstream and increases the speed at which food exits your body through the digestive tract. (ii) That keeps your blood sugar and cholesterol in ideal balance -- and quickly eliminates toxins from your gut and reduces your appetite,

    The Super Fiber That Controls Your Appetite and Blood Sugar 2010

  • This is because fiber slows the rate at which food enters your bloodstream and increases the speed at which food exits your body through the digestive tract. (ii) That keeps your blood sugar and cholesterol in ideal balance -- and quickly eliminates toxins from your gut and reduces your appetite,

    Mark Hyman, MD: The Super Fiber That Controls Your Appetite and Blood Sugar 2010

  • It is somewhat tart, I grant it; acriora orexim excitant embammata, as he said, sharp sauces increase appetite,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • And then, in regard to books, as of these I rarely got more than what might serve as a whet to the appetite,

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

  • "Well," said the Marechal, continuing to eat with an excellent appetite,

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • Yasmini enjoyed a charmed life and an increasing appetite,

    Guns of the Gods Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1921

  • Yasmini enjoyed a charmed life and an increasing appetite,

    Guns of the Gods Talbot Mundy 1909

  • One crisp morning in late November, when all the grass in the Park had been blackened by frost, and the pools were edged with silver rims of ice, and mists were white and saffron about the scarce-risen sun, and that autumn thrill was in the air which gives one such an appetite,

    Kings in Exile Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

  • There is a very great difference, I admit, between a courteous man and one who is ill-natured and insulting, between a generous man and a niggard, a pure and a lewd, a man who lives in thought and a man who lives in appetite,

    Sermons for the New Life. 1802-1876 1876

  • While he passed his time at the club, his wife, a fair-complexioned nerveless woman, helped to ruin the Rougon business by her inordinate passion for showy gowns and her formidable appetite,

    The Fortune of the Rougons ��mile Zola 1871

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