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Title: "Are You Hungry?"
- by Kathy Thompson
writing4u@faceuptoit-youcan.com
(c) Kathy Thompson - All Rights Reserved
www.faceuptoit-youcan.com
"Why Do You Eat?"
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 machanism discconected;
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.
Push away from the table, and Give it time to feel satisfied.
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