On Eating - a row of smithereens about hunger and eating No 15

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salmon steaks on a barbecue grill. Bildquelle: flickr. presented on http://www.meinlieblingsessen.de/page/8/
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Last: the tribal instinct or: people like me

Today: The Big Fraud part I

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We heard a lot about our feedback control system helping us to keep the energy control circuit exactly in balance. We heard that this system is able to learn.

If the system undergoes times of shortage and times of abundance of energy supply, it widens it´s benchmarks and activates an energy saving program, defending avariciously every bit and piece of energy stock material against loss.

The energy stock material is also known as body fat and the benchmark is a rising set point. We heard that a trained system is set to store continuously a little more than the system really needs over the time period of a day.

And slowly, bit by bit, - and without physical pain or unpleasant feelings of disorder – the energy stock warehouses of our body grow and grow. We heard about the important roles of insulin and of our hypophysis and of mechanisms regulating food intake.

The consequence of all this is: if we want to stop a continuously ongoing energy material storage activity we have to work like fraudsters.

We – which is our will, our brain – has to creep up on the feedback control system andturn some screws gently, gently, avoiding to frighten any component of the system.

How can we do this? There are certainly many ways to try it, we will pursue the hypophysis – insulin track. We´ll concentrate on lulling our pancreas gland to a very low activity level. Why? The Royal fleet of insulin ships in the harbour and only a few insulin ships patroulling says: no extreme low glucose level - no hunger attack.

Tomorrow: The big fraud Part II