How many different reasons do you have for eating? Food is really any
substance taken into the body to provide energy. It is a material to keep
your body strong and regulates bodily processes.
Again, how many different reasons (excuses) do you have for eating? We
sure put a lot emphasis on food in our society. Every time we turn around we
are eating; celebrating, depressed, stressed, Thanksgiving, Christmas,
weddings, wakes, when angry, tired, sad, July 4, Valentines, birthdays,
bored.
The body knows what is needs and when. The problem is, we don't listen to
our bodies. Most of us usually eat when we are hungry, the first time we
feel our stomach growling. For most of us this is a false hunger. It will go
away.
Hunger is complex unpleasant sensations that build slowly in the stomach,
throat, mouth, and head, and increases in intensity the longer you go
without eating. Appetite is a pleasant desire for a specific food, and may
have nothing to do with hunger. You may feel full, but still have room for
dessert.
Satiety, the active mechanism in weight control, is the subconscious,
often abrupt signal to stop eating. It tells you you have had enough to eat.
Both hunger and satiety are regulated by the interaction of a number of
areas in the brain responding to various stimuli. In most adults this
mechanism maintains an ideal weight for 40 years or more. However,
overweight people have this mechanism disconnected; their urge to eat is
generally governed not by physical need, but external forces--such as mental
states as boredom or fatigue and such incidental stimuli as remembering left
over cake in the kitchen.
The best rule of thumb is to eat only when hungry and just enough to
satisfy your hunger.
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