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Hunger

The Satiety Side Dish

Potatoes with googly eyes watching in horror as another potato is crushed by a potato masher

What exactly makes us ‘sated’, and when can we eat again? Is it about volume? Hormones? Nutrients? Answers to rhetorical questions…

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Food Noise

an abstract ringing alarm clock recreated from onion rings, mushrooms, basil leaves and salt

The popular weight-loss injection promises less ‘food noise’ - and lists side effects. A ketogenic diet does the same, and comes with side benefits.

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Hunger (in the Plural)

A dog staring at a cake

We act as if there were only one kind of hunger - there are actually three, and the dietary guidelines mostly talk about number four.

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Overfed and Undersupplied

a few stacks of empty plates

An alternative interpretation of hunger: what if we’re not hungry because we need to eat, but hungry because of what we ate? A useful mental model…

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