Is hunger a physical or mental state of mind?

I have read an article about causes of obesity and its adverse effect on a person's health. The child of your friend may be soon become obese because he often eats and claims he is hungry. Hunger can be both physical and mental.In the sense that our body is well integrated and our brain or the central nervous system which also governs our mental activity as well as the biological activity of our body plays a very important role in keeping our body functioning and in homeostasis or state of balance.

According to Bahram Shahmardaan, PhD, there are five types of hunger. These are habit hunger, mind hunger, taste hunger, stomach hunger and body hunger. Habit hunger is due to the impression of our mind that results from eating schedules like we are used to doing.

If we use to eat breakfast at 7 in the morning, lunch at 12 noon and dinner at 7 p. M, so even if we are not hungry at those time we will think of eating because our mind is attuned to eating at those times. This is actually not real hunger and if we are busy at the appointed time of eating and the hunger passes especially if we really are not hungry.

Mind hunger is the same as habit hunger and it is not real hunger. The difference is the basis. For example if a person is without food for a long time, even if he is not hungry he thinks he ought to be hungry.

This can disappear too after some time and is not real hunger. Taste hunger often happens after a heavy meal. Even if we are not very hungry we eat dessert or eat a favorite snack in between meals.

This is not real hunger and with some discipline you can control and void unnecessary calories. The fourth hunger is stomach hunger, which is the real hungers. This is experienced when the stomach becomes empty.

If one wants to be healthy, he should not overeat and you can do this by eating before the stomach gets empty so that you will not feel so hungry. The tendency when you feel very hungry is that you tend to overeat. The fifth type is body hunger.

This is dangerous and occurs when the whole body needs food because of famine or fasting. It will not dissipate with the passing of time and it persists because the body is deprived of nutrition.

It is possible that the boy is ill and not just being greedy. From what I have discovered there are several conditions that will cause this unusual hunger, including diabetes, so I don't think it will be as simple as just the hunger itself. Has this been going on for a while or is it a sudden change?

Does he have any other symptoms? The second website has a symptom checker which she might find useful and the others have more information. Whatever else, rather than simply refusing his demands, it would be a good idea to get him checked over, if all is well, she can try other ways of dealing with the problem, trying to get some counseling about eating healthy for instance.

You could say it's completely mental even though you do need food You get a completely different feeling when your actually hungry compare to these minor feelings the child may have... Every addiction even alcohol or drugs is just a mental thing in fact... That is to say hunger is a addiction especially for those whom are a little overweight.... Unless your younger than 18 and even then you could do with less than two full meals a day... (that is to say something at a restaurant is a full meal) but things like fast food have the same sort of addicting propertys as say candy... you don't shake and sell your whole house for them.... but you do crave them... so basically hunger in this case is a addiction.... something that can be stop like all addictions with some will power, which sadly most Americans don't have.....

There are different things to look for which tell you if the hunger one is feeling is emotional or physical in origin. The hunger is physically based if the hunger builds gradually and gives you a growling stomach. Also, if the hunger happens several hours after a meal, then you know it's because the stomach is empty and no because of some compulsion to eat.

If the hunger goes away after eating and you feel a sense of fullness in the stomach afterwards then it's physical hunger. The hunger is based on emotions if it comes on suddenly like a craving for a particular food. It leads to a feeling of guilt after eating and the eating often persists after being full.

Emotional eating occurs without any time period after eating a meal, it can occur just moments after. Often people eat while depressed.

I think the answer for this one is both mental and physical. We need food to survive but most people tend to eat much more than they need. Those extra calories are stored in the body as we all know, and then the people complain they are too fat etc.In some cases where people have parasites such as worms inside of their body, they may always feel hungry.

They can eat a meal and half an hour later they are hungry once more and seem to eat nonstop. If you know you eat enough but cannot seem to get full or are losing weight perhaps you should see a doctor. The photo included here is of a parasitic worm.

Imagine having that sucker crawling in your body. I also have a great niece with that disease where she never feels full and steals food. The family’s refrigerator is padlocked, and numerous doctors have seen her before my niece finally got a diagnosis which worked.

Though it obviously has at least some physical tie-ins, I'm tempted to think that it can be categorized as a state of mind. When I'm busy, working and focused, I can actually go for an extremely long time without eating (even a full day). I can only imagine what this does to my blood sugar, but when I'm focused on something my hunger goes away.

Even if I notice that I haven't eaten for a long time, the hunger doesn't actually show up until I've mentally decided to take a break. If I don't want to stop for food, I can keep this up almost indefinitely.

This may due to several reasons, a co-axial reaction of physical and mental state of mind. These type of hungry comes due to the following reasons, i. If she have any worms inside her stomach, Use any pills that use to cleared out the stomach every months.Ii.

Take a practical test to find is it a mental state of mind as below. Please take her somewhere she likes or to any film or do anything so that she can interact with that forgetting her hungry. If she still getting hungry means something problem with her body, if she forgot about the hungry and does not having hungry means the problem is with her state of mind.

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