On Eating - a row of smithereens about hunger and eating No 01

Bildquelle gefro.de a plate with zucchini, carrotes basil, white sauce and red meat

Hunger is a driving force in our lifes making us getting up and go searching for something that soothens the pain of desire: food.

The thing is our body is set to do absolutely EVERYTHING to keep our system alive and in balance.

The balance of our system is a regulatory circuit. We have to pursue input of high value energy in form of food and output in form of low energy material, stool.

In the middle, in between, mother nature wants the energy level of the system as constant as possible. To keep up that constancy we have to take in high value energy in form of food as soon as the balance of the system starts tipping over, which is several times a day.

To make us doing so nature installed hunger as the driving force to develop a wish to eat.

Tomorrow: the nature of hunger, which mechanisms makes hunger emerge?

Two hints: blood sugar, insulin and the size of our stomach.