Appetite

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Appetite
Hunger , Satiety

If only it were a simple calculus: hungry, eat, full, stop. But an array of biochemicals sending signals to the brain from a variety of local centers and around the body conspires to make appetite highly complex and very malleable in order to take advantage of excess calories whenever they are available.

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