NUTRITION AUTHOR
Krista Large
THE HUNGER GAME n The human appetite can be
complicated, but there are ways to understand your body, from when you’re hungry to full.
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n our modern culture, we say things like, “I could eat,” or “I can always eat.” We eat when we’re bored. We go to the fridge when work stalls. We eat when stressed. We have food cravings for crunchy, chewy, salty or sweet things. On the other hand, some people skip meals. They eat only one meal a day, barely eat anything at all or can fast naturally overnight and well into the next day. The human appetite is fascinating. I’ve wanted to learn more recently, so I purchased the book “AC: The Power of Appetite Correction” by Dr. Bert Herring to learn about the human drive to eat. In his book, Herring identifies five different types of hunger: somatic, limbic, clock, appetite and mouth. To dive deeper, somatic hunger is present when you feel your stomach growling and sense physical hunger. Limbic hunger occurs when under stress or when food scarcity is present. Clock hunger is felt as somatic hunger in the body and is part of our biological rhythms, much like our drive to sleep in the evening.
JULY 2022
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