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Hunger, weight loss and obesity | Stephan Guyenet, PhD

The Proof with Simon Hill

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The Role of Genetic Variability in Reward Driven Eating

Some people are consuming excess calories because they just are hungrier. They have a higher, just hunger based desire to eat. And then on the other side, we have non-homeostatic eating. This is kind of a catch all term for all the other reasons that we might eat. So there's reward driven eating where a food is really seductive and we're eating it. We might not be that hungry. Maybe it's the end of a meal and the ice cream comes out and suddenly, okay, we're ready to eat some more calories. It might be drinking a beer because you want, because you're hungry. You want the pleasure value of it. But I think

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