after eating do we feel full based on the volume of the food we eat or the calories we consume?

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after eating do we feel full based on the volume of the food we eat or the calories we consume?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

I have seen somewhere, that if you cut a strawberry into slices, and eat slowly. One descent size strawberry will make you full. I’ve never tried it…

Anonymous 0 Comments

Volume is a significant component. Eating high volume, low cal food is one way tactic for reducing caloric intake. Eat a CostCo bag of brocoli and see if you feel full.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Also your personal gut biome.

I am full after eating a yogurt but try to eat something about every hour. Not being able to eat normally is a job.

Anonymous 0 Comments

How would the body detect “calories” in such a short period of time?

Anonymous 0 Comments

Mostly the volume of food.

Your stomach has mechoreceptors (sense stretch) which gives you the “I’m full/stuffed” feeling. Gastric bypass surgery works by reducing the volume of your stomach so less food makes you feel more full. However, this is different from not feeling hungry. Many people will eat even when they’re not hungry just because they don’t feel full, this is one of the many factors leading to obesity.

Ghrelin is one of the hormones that make you feel hunger, though a lack of ghrelin doesn’t make you feel full it just means you aren’t actively hungry.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Calories are a measurement of the energy produced by burning the food we eat, they aren’t units of mass.

The other measurable parts of food, how many grams of this or that (carbs, fats, protein), allows us to measure what the caloric equivalent would be. But the body never knows anything about the idea of Calories.

Anonymous 0 Comments

mostly calories. If you eat a huge bowl of spinach your stomach will fill but youll be hungry again before long.

Anonymous 0 Comments

It’s both. If you fill up on broccoli, you didn’t intake that many cals but now your stomach is full and tells you to stop. If you’re eating something high in protein, you will feel satiated with a much lesser volume of food than the broccoli. So it depends.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Your question has already been answered, just wanted to add that I recommend Why We Eat (Too Much) by Dr Andrew Jenkinson. I’m reading this at the moment and on a chapter explaining leptin, ghrelin and satiety very well.

Anonymous 0 Comments

It’s literally just volume, hence why overweight and obese people who struggle with controlling their calorie intake get surgeries that decrease the size of the stomach. It is also why eating a lot of vegetables and drinking water fills u up despite its very low calorie content.