On Eating - a row of smithereens about hunger and eating No 08

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Yesterday: The just in case safety margin.

Today: constancy of the system

This news will certainly not contribute a lot to rise our level of hilarity. Our body has a complete different point of view towards weight than we have.

The instruction mother nature gave to our feedback control system is: keep and hold whatever you can get and try to get more.

Why an instruction like this? Our body has no idea of the invention of super markets.

To find food at the right time is a constant gambling between life and threat of death by lack of energy supply. – lack of food.

We might be lucky enough to kill the uggly saber-toothed cat – or not.

We all heard of a thing called set point. The body has a benchmark in it´s system saying: we are satisfied if the body weight is bobbing up and down a weight of NN.

To sustain the status quo of the system the body will give away the profusion of energy by developing heat, widening our blood vessels.

If there´s not enough energy on the other hand the body saves energy by constricting the blood vessels. But this is just a very weak mechanism, widely overframed by the tendency to store whatever the body can get.

The trap is: If there´s constantly an overflow of energy in form of food available, the body simply rises the benchmark of our setpoint.

We easily can imagine the consequences. If our body has the opportunity to store the experience our body fat storage magazines were filled at one point in time to 125 kilo there´s a hooray cry inside the system.

We can get more! So the old benchmark 81 kilo becomes obsolete, the new one is 125 kilo.

The system tries now to keep the substance. – by what means?

By challenging energy supply for 125 buddies instead of for troops of just 81 of our comrades.

With other words: if our weight is higher, we do indeed suffer from a bigger desire for a higher amount of energy supply.

Our body doesn´t judge between our "good" organs and muscles and our "bad" fat.

For our body everybody on board has the same rights. The right to get nourished in a satisfactory way.

Tomorrow: constancy of weight: the sparrows.