Is there such a thing as a healthy appetite?
Not surprisingly, since we have a need to live, grow and reproduce, evolution has equipped us with a powerful drive to seek food and devour it. If that is not enough, our hedonistic emotions have made eating and drinking a pleasurable experience. So, what tells us to stop eating? Have we evolved systems to do so effectively? The ever increasing problems of excess weight and obesity would suggest not.
Luckman
S M
SM
School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK.
D001066:Appetite / Q000502:physiology*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001835:Body Weight; D004032:Diet; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000503:physiopathology