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Katz, MD, MPH, a medical correspondent on ABC's "Good Morning America," uses flavor management to turn off appetite, described in his new book, "The Flavor Point Diet: The Delicious Breakthrough Plan to Turn Off Your Hunger and Lose the Weight for Good." The strategy of Barbara Rolls, PhD, author of "The Volumetrics Eating Plan and the Volumetrics Weight-Control Plan," substitutes foods that have fewer calories by weight compared with those that are energy-dense to feel full on fewer calories.

Turn Off Your Appetite The variety of food we dieters eat may be doing us in.

An abundance of different flavors at one meal overstimulates the brain's appetite centers so you overeat before feeling full, says Katz, who is director of the Yale Prevention Research Center in New Haven, Conn.

His Flavor Point diet is based on studies of sensory-specific satiety, or the tendency to feel full and stop eating when flavors are limited, and do just the opposite when flavors are varied.

4 Keys to Katz says this is why you might feel full after eating a savory meal but still have room for dessert.

"Once you turn on an appetite center, you must eat until i...

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