Shouldn’t your body just give you the stop signal and make you not overeat? Then why do people get fat at all?
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To add in, they’re finding that there are a lot of people who have disregulation in their metabolic processes. Most notably, the pancreas produces too much insulin after eating, causing blood sugar to plummet and causing cravings after eating. Over a lifetime, this can turn into insulin resistance, or type II diabetes.
Basic gist is there’s a difference between “sated” and “full”. In the former case, we feel we’ve had enough to eat and don’t desire to continue eating. The latter case is when our stomachs are physically full. Our stomachs stretch quite a bit, and can hold far more food than we need to be sated. But a large number of obese people don’t feel sated because of the metabolic disregulation.
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