Appetite

With the stress of everyday life, such as drama, friends, school, family, and extracurricular activities, eating disorders are becoming more and more common. There are three main types: anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating. Binge eating is when you consume large amounts of food at one time, following the intake with no attempt to prevent weight gain. Bulimia is when you consume large amounts of food at one time, followed by an attempt to prevent weight gain, such as self-induced vomiting

adopt a maladaptive coping strategy such as controlling their food intake (Parke, 2009). On the other hand, scientists have also found that eating disorders can also be biologically controlled where some children lack certain chemicals that control appetite, hunger, and digestion. Often, these chemicals are lacking or they are unbalanced in a child who develops an eating disorder (Hudson,

While there are two different types of anorexia, their symptoms and assumed causes are relatively the same. Goldberg (2016) notes that although anorexia essentially means "loss of appetite," this definition is inaccurate as people with this disorder are in fact, hungry, but refuse to eat. Individuals suffering from anorexia, tend to have an obsessive fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, so they start behaving in ways that causes

Are you constantly on a quest to lose weight? Perhaps you step on the scales and you haven 't lost half as much weight as you would of liked, or perhaps you cheat a little and have a fatty meal. Before long you are on back to your old ways, and so the self promises and disappointment starts all over again. Does this pattern sound familiar? Many people fall into this trap, but don 't fully realize why, and sadly only a few ever break out of it. They tell themselves it was the wrong diet, or lie

Physiologically speaking when we are hungry it is due to a hormone called Ghrelin (there are more at play here but for the time being we’re focusing on this hormone). Ghrelin is a peptide hormone found in the GI tract, its function is to regulate appetite. The body sense’s the stomach is empty it produces ghrelin, when it senses it has had its fill it stops secretion. When this happens it activates hypothalamic brain cells and GI tract acid secretion. In laymen terms, that sensation of hunger is felt

probable. Unfortunately, this thought is much too advanced for our primitive society, or is it? Back in 2009, when researchers were searching for a cure for cancer, they discovered a compound that when injected into mice caused an extreme reduction in appetite as well as up to thirty percent weight loss. This compound would trick the brain into thinking that it was not hungry (“Obesity Drugs Might” 2). This compound may be extremely useful on the path to a cure, but it is not the only one. An additional

4 All Natural Weight Loss: Is it Good All the Time? When you are contemplating your own weight loss plan, how important do those two little words, “All Natural” become to you? To many people, this is an instant guarantee and now they can rest assured that all of their weight loss dreams will miraculously become realities and there will not be any adverse side effects to hurt them physically or even emotionally. All Natural seems to imply to many people that everything else is okay as long as what

Most people have tried various diets to lose weight or wished for our body shape to change. For most people, diets will only work for the short term and as we age we tend to put on more weight. For individuals who are fixated on losing weight or changing their body shape; can lead to an eating disorder. Eating disorders (ED) have been defined as “syndromes characterised by significant disturbances in eating behaviour and by distress or excessive concern about body shape or weight.” Eating disorders

You know the drill when it comes to losing weight — take in fewer calories, burn more calories. But you also know that most diets and quick weight-loss plans have about as much substance as a politician’s campaign pledges. You’re better off finding several simple things you can do on a daily basis — along with following the cardinal rules of eating more vegetables and less fat and getting more physical activity. Together, they should send the scale numbers in the right direction: down. 1. Once

How To Read Signals That Our Body Is Sending Us? Maria Konnikova in her essay “Why Do We Eat, and Why Do We Gain Weight?” talking about how our bodies deal with hunger. Why do eat more than we actually need? Obesity is a big problem nowadays and we don’t really know how to deal with it. A lot of times we call oversized people lazy and say that they can’t control what they eat. But how many times we caught ourselves of not being able to stop eating even though we were already full? How does it work