Hunger and appetite: old concepts/new distinctions.
Hunger and appetite: old concepts/new distinctions.
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饥饿和食欲:旧概念/新区别。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1753-4887.1983.tb07163.x
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发表时间:
2009
影响因子:
6.1
通讯作者:
J. Stern
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文献类型:
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作者:
T. Castonguay;E. Applegate;D. Upton;J. Stern
Words such as “hunger” and “appetite” have been used with a variety of meanings. To dieters, the word” hunger” may conjure up images of foods recently taken out of the diet. To nutritionists, the same word may conjure up images of children in developing nations suffering from marasmus. Although everyone has some basis for an intuitive definition of hunger, the term as it will be used in this chapter will refer specifically to that set of internal signals that stimulate the acquisition and consumption of food. These signals may originate in the brain, in the periphery, or can develop as habit. The signal set has many constituent parts that act in concert to initiate feeding. These factors contribute to a control system that “regulates” caloric balance. Although each factor can be manipulated so as to promote the initiation of eating, there does not seem to be any one primary mechanism that can be called “the” hunger mechanism. Rather, a number of sometimes complex events occur that result in the body asking the question “Is there anything to eat?” By some accounts, the reciprocal state of hunger is satiety. Usually, hunger is experienced in the absence of satiety cues, and vice versa. Although they are undoubtedly interac-