Tag: hunger

Knowing When To Stop Eating

Dr. John Poothullil

Reading Time: 4 minutesYour brain informs you when to stop eating during a meal. Paying attention to your “satisfaction” (also called “satiation”) signals is just as important as being aware of your hunger signals.  During a meal, the brain receives messages from the mouth, the stomach, the intestines, and the blood—all of which combine to help it assess when enough nutrients have been consumed to satisfy the demand for nutrition from the body’s cells.  Like hunger, satiation signals are highly dependent on your nutritional status. At some meals, you’ll need to consume a…

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Dr. John Explains Hunger and “Eating Like A Toddler”

Dr. John Poothullil

Reading Time: 4 minutesTo understand hunger, you don’t need to look any further than the mechanism by which babies regulate their consumption of milk, or toddlers regulate their consumption of food. If you think about it, both infants and toddlers decide on their own when to eat, what to eat, and how much to eat to thrive physically, mentally, and emotionally. When you were an infant and then a toddler, this is what you did. So today, to lose weight, you need to alter your eating habits, so you can eat as you…

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