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| Weight Loss Depends on Eating or Not Eating |
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| Written by Richard L. Lipman M.D. |
| Thursday, 18 June 2009 19:22 |
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Weight loss depends on learning that eating starts as an impulse decision, often not the result of any signal of food depletion. Thus, even in the presence of fullness and full energy stores it’s easy for the brain to tell us to eat, especially when pleasing, convenient food is easily available.
The less physical effort to obtain it, the better it appears. Their appears to be a genetic differences in responsiveness to environmental factors telling the individual to eat. Additionally, overweight people are much more responsive to these external signals—smells, pictures, signs, time of day, stress levels than their normal weight counterparts.
Palatability and pleasantness are the most powerful determinants of food intake. The pleasure of tasting sweet or fatty foods is so strong in many people as to override all abilities to limit their intake. Drs Berridge and Robinson have outlined the psychological components as: learning, liking and then wanting.
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| Last Updated on Monday, 09 November 2009 12:23 |
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