I also found reports linking gelatin with appetite suppression, but not to glycine per se. Glycine is, however, reported to curb cravings for sugar. Japanese scientists have been on the forefront of glycine research, and have discovered that glycine is very useful for those individuals who have trouble staying asleep.
Three strategies that will help you find the main idea are to 1) look for general versus specific ideas; 2) use the topic (the general subject of a section) to lead you to the main idea; 3) use key wordsâverbal clues that lead you to a main idea.
By reading the first few paragraphs in detail, you will get a good idea of what information will be discussed. Once you know where the reading is headed, you can begin to read only the first sentence of each paragraph. Also called topic sentences, they give you the main idea of the paragraph.