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Appetite
An instinctive physical urge to eat food (felt
as hunger), appetite, second only to thirst as a motivator to human
needs, exists in all higher lifeforms, and serves to regulate adequate
energy intake to maintain metabolic needs. It can be undertood by
a well-knit interplay between the digestive tract, adipose tissue
and the brain. Dysregulation of appetite contributes to anorexia
nervosa and cachexia on one side, and obesity on the other side
of the spectrum.
When we eat what we need, you don't overeat. When we don't eat what
we need, we stay hungry, no matter how much stuff you eat. Food
addiction has been clinically recognized - refined sugar as strong
as nicotine and cocaine, and is added in some form to almost all
packaged foods.
When our appetite gets screwed up, so does our metabolism. What
screws 'em up is dieting that has us at odds with feeling hungry,
tells you when you can and can't eat by an external clock and chart,
not by your own inner clock. Diet suppressants also do short term
weight loss with a long term backfire.
Fix:
1. Drinking plenty of plain water. This is not
to play games with hunger, but to tune up the sense of thirst, and
separate it from appetite for food. When people drink, it generally
stimulates your appetite. When we feel thirsty and drink stuff with
diuretics, they can raise our need for water, not meet it. Our body
may send out the hunger message just to try to get food with water
content.
2. Eating as soon as one feels hungry.
When we fight our own body's messages, like going around hungry,
it will backfire and we will find ourself stuffing with anything
around. When we need to feel stuffed, we should try to get there
with Produce, not Products. Feeling stuffed once in a while is okay,
it gives us a sense of wellbeing, and that it is safe to raise the
metabolism and burn some stored fat.
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