Dietary food supplement

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The dietary food supplement embodying the invention includes a candy or sugar based confectionary in the form of a well-formulated health food bar.
The preferred sugar based confectionary or candy bar is about one-quarter the size of a health food bar, or about a third of an ounce, i.
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about 10 grams.
However, the size or weight of the sugar based confectionary is not especially critical.
Generally, most people suffer from a strange phenomenon in that they develop a sense of acute hunger when they are only slightly hungry.
Such people feel ravenous and suffer from sharp hunger pangs even though the actual need for food is limited.
This phenomenon is most easily observed when one orders a meal on an empty stomach at a restaurant, or worse at an all-you-can-eat buffet, only to realize he or she has ordered far more food than one can eat.
In this modern world, where food is generally in abundance, one tends to eat quickly and more; and before the hypothalamus has had time to react, which means that one will eat far more than the minor lack of food that was the initial cause of the hunger pangs.
The hypothalamus is a tiny organ near the front of the brain which, in the past, has been largely ignored.
Now, it has been recognized as being a vastly important organ, and researchers have now realized that the hypothalamus has a determinal impact on how much serotonin the brain releases.
It has been noted that serotonin quite literally controls the degree to which one feels hunger, as well as other emotions.
While the exact mechanism by which the hypothalamus releases serotonin to impact on one's hunger is not fully understood, it is believed that when one ingests food, the hypothalamus gradually takes note and causes the release of serotonin.
The serotonin thus allows the activation of an electrical stimuli to inform the brain when one has eaten enough.
The satiated signal thus formed causes one to stop eating.
With the abundance of available food, there is hardly any delay in satisfying hunger and thus one tends to overeat