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I find that there are two distinct sensations that I have to call hunger. They seem to get confused. The first is what I think people in modern society call hu
by neltnerb 13y ago
I find that there are two distinct sensations that I have to call hunger. They seem to get confused.
The first is what I think people in modern society call hunger, because it's the only kind they've experienced. It's a craving for food, or even just a sensation of not being full. We call "not full" "hungry" when they aren't really necessarily the same.
The second kind comes after you've fasted for quite a while. It's difficult to describe if you haven't felt it, but it's sort of like... tightness maybe as if your body is buzzing or something.
- beagle3 13y agoThe first one is appetite. The real hunger comes around after a few weeks of fasting - and unlike appetite, it doesn't go away when you do something interesting.
- k__ 13y agoReally? I thought the feeling I get, when I didn't eat for >10h was hunger. It's an ugly feeling, which comes with borborygmus. Appetite is a feeling I would describe more psychological. I'm smelling something delicious and suddenly want to eat it.
- beagle3 13y ago> Appetite is a feeling I would describe more psychological. I'm smelling something delicious and suddenly want to eat it. It is psycho-physiological addiction. (smell is not psychology, it is physiological). It is like cigarette addiction. But it isn't a physiological need.
- coldtea 13y ago10h? That's not hunger, that's regular appetite. Not having eaten for 2-3 days would be hunger.
- andor 13y agoActually he described it quite well. Appetite is psychological, whereas hunger is a physical sensation of pain. I'm replying to your post because I get hungry even quicker. I had lunch (rump steak, potatoes) at 1pm and now at 4:30, I'm hungry again. My BMI Is 21, with rather low body fat.
- beagle3 13y agoStill, that's appetite, not hunger. Even with a BMI of 21, you can probably fast for 20-40 days with no irreversible damage, and that feeling you call "hunger" will not be there after the 2nd day. You do not know what hunger is until you've felt it. I thought I knew what hunger was, until I fasted for 25 days. Then, I actually discovered what hunger is.
- glogla 13y agoFeeling of hunger is very individual. For some people, it's no big deal. For other people, it is very annoying. I know that if I haven't eaten for a day, I start notice limping people more, and I can't stop watching small children, because I want to kill and eat them.
- sp332 13y agoIs it a crinkly feeling in your gut? That could be your GI tract closing down since it has nothing to do.
- Mvandenbergh 13y agoWhenever I used to say I was hungry my Dutch grandfather would say, "No, you'd like to eat something. Hunger is something we had during the war". ("Je hebt trek, honger hadden we tijdens de oorlog")