The Science of Appetite - Beating Overeating

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Want to lose weight but can't stop eating? There's a reason for that. Find out how you can beat the desire to overeat and bring yourself one step closer to being your healthy self!

Written and created by Mitchell Moffit (twitter @mitchellmoffit) and Gregory Brown (twitter @whalewatchmeplz).

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Some Sources ---

Endocrinology of Eating

1) http://www.erlanson-albertsson.se/ove...

2) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12...

3) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/artic...

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[elissa mati]

Why are our eyes colored?

[Hexaclore]

Is it possible that over time as we evolve the more we eat more high fat and sugary foods our digestive system would be able to process the foods at a much quicker rate therefore we'd be less overweight? Would that mean we'd be able to eat foods with more calories and bigger sized portions? Just my hypothesis. Although that isn't good because we inevitably would ruin the environment one way or another due to overpopulation and more resources, crops and animals to make the food.

[dhruv patel]

Does telekinesis exist? Are human beings capable of developing this sort of power? Do you think that our brain hasn't evolved much which is why we can not fully utilize our brain for such things?

[selena randall]

Howcome people get so addicted to online games to where they can act anyway they can, and cant even act how they want to act in real, I kind of know it has something to do with the desire for attention.

[TheBellyboy78]

my brain must have got the memo, my doctor said i was under-weight im ignoring his orders to eat a billion calories a day

[Josie Drake]

I'm not sure if this made me feel better or worse about my food choices...

[therandomcrew1126]

Why do people grind teethe?

[EpicMinersCanada]

If they weren't, you would be asking why they aren't coloured.

[0nutella0]

You forget that overeating usually doesn't stop people from having kids (I mean they don't die in their 20's, therefore they manage to have kids at some time). Besides overeating can be environmental

[0nutella0]

Does it make sense? Evolutionary, to find food is not a privilege, but a problem ('a hunt'), so if people were to eat more, it would become more problematic?

Besides the drawbacks you mentioned.

[Esli Ayeetus]

the thing that u wanna know sintifically with the help of science!!!

[taylorwsims]

If people in the population are getting sick from overeating (obesity, diabetes, etc.) and dying before they have a chance to have kids, then the genes they carry that give them a higher risk of those diseases would decrease in frequency in the gene pool. If enough of such genes were removed from a the population's gene pool then the population would technically be evolving. It is ironic that too much of a good thing is making people sick.