the.com/appetite
the hunger that runs your day while pretending it works for you
means A strong desire or craving — most often for food, but also for anything you keenly want, like power, knowledge, or risk.
from From Latin appetitus, 'a longing for,' built from appetere 'to strive after, grasp toward' — ad- ('toward') plus petere ('to seek, aim at,' the same petere that gives us 'petition' and 'compete'). It reached English in the Middle Ages by way of Old French apetit, already carrying both the literal hunger of the belly and the figurative hunger of the will.
- ghrelin clock
- a stomach hormone spikes hunger right on schedule
- eyes lie
- bigger plates trick you into eating more
- leptin resistance
- the brain can stop hearing the full signal
- sleep tax
- one bad night cranks cravings the next day
- phantom feeding
- thirst often masquerades as hunger