You just had the best Thanksgiving meal ever. Endless amounts of turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing etc. Afterwards all you wanted to do was lay on the couch because you felt so full from all the food.  Why is it that we get too full. Is it the texture of the food or something else?

” Our appetite reflects a conscious sensation of hunger, a learned or habitual pattern of eating at times throughout the day, our preferences for different kinds of foods and the sheer pleasure of eating or indulging in particular foods we like.” When our stomach expands while eating the nerve receptors feel that and send signals to the brain. The brain then tells us we are starting to feel full.

Satiating has apart to play in this. Theres seven different signals that comply to feeling full and are broken up into two categroies: short vs long. During short term saityity you try to remember the memory of what was consumed like the taste and smell. Also the stretching of the stomach happens. During long term saitity the brain recieves a message that tells us how long it’ll take to eat before we’re full.

One study was done with men and women eating 38 foods that had the same calories. Every 15 minutes during a two hour limit, they would say how full thye’ve become.

I wish they told us how many people did the study and what age, if they were overweight or not, ect was told as well. Hat might have skeeted the results. But its cool to know what is actually telling us that we’re full from food. I never heard of saitiating before this.