Hunger

Name: Hunger
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ISBN: 9780521311229

ISBN-10: 0521311225

ISBN-13: 9780521311229

Edition: 1985

Authors: Jacques Le Magnen

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From birth, the urge to eat is the most common everyday experience. Eating to be nourished is the most basic behaviour of human life, and is one of the main functions in all living organisms. Clear answers to a number of important questions have only recently begun to emerge. Why are animals hungry? How are they driven to seek and eat selected foods? How do they become satiated so that they ingest the exact amount of food they need for growth and to maintain stable body weight in adulthood? This book is the first synthesis, by one hand, of the new knowledge on feeding behaviour. It describes the roles of body depletion and repletion of energy and of specific nutrients, of the orosensory…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/30/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Foreword Jeffrey Gray


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Experimental techniques and procedures



Basic facts and normal feeding



Systemic and sensory stimulation to eat



Determinants of meal size



Body energy balance



The regulation of body weight or body fat mass



Developmental aspects



Brain mechanisms of hunger arousal and meal initiation



Brain mechanisms of satiation and meal size



Brain mechanisms of body energy balance and of maintenance of fat mass



Nutrient-specific appetites


Conclusion


References


Index