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[carorees]

I've just come across a great series of articles on how our brains influence our eating from the British Society for Neuroendocrinology http://www.neuroendo.org.uk

Here's a good one on what controls our appetite: http://www.neuroendo.org.uk/Topics/Obes ... etite.aspx

At the bottom of the article are links to more articles, such as the neurochemistry of gluttony: http://www.neuroendo.org.uk/Topics/Obes ... ttony.aspx

All great stuff!

Thanks for the links, I will get back to them later when I have time to just sit down and read them but, I wanted to say that in our society having 'a healthy appetite' is usually a polite way of describing overeating. I know it is meant to be some sort of a compliment but it rarely is. Strange how slim people are never described as having an 'unhealthy' appetite.

Ballerina x

@carorees thank you so much for those links - very interesting - to think that children gestating during a famine are more susceptible to obesity - I would have thought the other way round.

I must say the more research on obesity there is the more hopeless our situation seems to be. Our drives for food and pleasure is such a strong instinct that we are facing a permanent uphill struggle in times and places where food is readily available. For our own preservation, nature has worked hard to make sure we don't get tired of feeding. Unfortunately, no inbuild self preservation that prevents us from overeating and killing ourselves.