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Eating Beyond Hunger
Children start associating eating with celebrations and pleasure, leading to learning to eat based on emotions like sadness or frustration, creating unhealthy habits. The term 'hedonic hunger' denotes eating due to emotional reasons rather than actual hunger, causing a mismatch in our eating patterns. This emotional eating disrupts the normal homeostatic hunger, leading to a disconnect between eating for nourishment and eating for emotional satisfaction.