- published: 16 Jul 2015
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Appetite is the desire to eat food, felt as hunger. Appetite exists in all higher life-forms, and serves to regulate adequate energy intake to maintain metabolic needs. It is regulated by a close interplay between the digestive tract, adipose tissue and the brain. Decreased desire to eat is termed anorexia, while polyphagia (or "hyperphagia") is increased eating. Dysregulation of appetite contributes to anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, cachexia, overeating, and binge eating disorder.
An appetite for different foods plays a significant factor in identifying cultures, countries, and ethics, especially the way we prepare food and eat it. Also you can tell a lot about a person through the way they eat their food.
The regulation of appetite (the appestat) has been the subject of much research in the last decade[update]. Breakthroughs included the discovery, in 1994, of leptin, a hormone that appeared to provide negative feedback. Later studies showed that appetite regulation is an immensely complex process involving the gastrointestinal tract, many hormones, and both the central and autonomic nervous systems.
Got a soul for sale.
Just another lonely tale.
As he thinks what could have been...if he could just get off the shit.
It's been oh so long.
When to right your wrongs?
But the war is over and now they know, that your appetite has grown.
Listen to me, they all can see.
This ain't what momma wanted, and you're just a shadow of the man you used to be, boy.
says, "Can you help me? Runnin' on empty."
Doctor is on the phone, but there's nothing to do when your appetite has grown.
Oh what a lonely boy. He was a lonely boy.
Oh what lonely boy. You'll die alone, my boy.