Psychology
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days agoWhat really controls our appetite hunger, stress or habit?
Hunger, appetite, and fullness are regulated by different brain areas, influencing our eating behaviors and responses to food.
One day at lunchtime, my dad was driving home from playing tennis with some friends and felt an unusual sensation - hunger. A McDonald's just north of our town had opened up several years before, but no one in our family had ever stopped there. Now, as he saw the restaurant's giant yellow M glinting in the sun ahead of him, Daddy felt a strangely powerful urge to stop.