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Hunger is good for your mental health

Started by droog, June 19, 2008, 06:56:35 AM

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droog

June 19, 2008, 06:56:35 AM
It seems that a hormone named ghrelin is produced in the stomach when you are hungry. It further seems that ghrelin may have an anti-depressant, anti-anxiety effect.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080615142252.htm
http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/06/16/hunger-hormone-may-influence-depression-and-anxiety/2463.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/11/60II/main543614.shtml
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Haffrung

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June 19, 2008, 11:12:41 AM
One of the reasons I scratch my head at game groups who gorge themselves during game sessions. I find satiation makes not only my body, but my mind sluggish.
 

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June 20, 2008, 04:35:57 AM
Quote from: droog;217416It seems that a hormone named ghrelin is produced in the stomach when you are hungry. It further seems that ghrelin may have an anti-depressant, anti-anxiety effect.



There seems to be an awful lot of uncertainty in the articles you linked to. I'm not sure that I'd trust much of this research without further testing.
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June 20, 2008, 09:52:49 AM
Quote from: Haffrung;217514One of the reasons I scratch my head at game groups who gorge themselves during game sessions. I find satiation makes not only my body, but my mind sluggish.

Actually, that sluggishness may be due to pressure on the Vagus Nerve in the stomach, which slows the heartrate significantly... or so I understand.
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June 20, 2008, 11:29:51 AM
No it isn't.

J Arcane

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June 21, 2008, 12:37:26 AM
I have no doubts that all the other deleterious effects of hunger will rather outweigh any positive ones.
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droog

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June 21, 2008, 12:46:14 AM
You naysayers are fatties, aren't you?
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June 21, 2008, 12:52:16 AM
Quote from: droog;218109You naysayers are fatties, aren't you?
While I've put on something of a gut over the last few months, I'm still only around 135, and I can assure you, I've spent a good enough amount of time being poor and hungry to have first hand knowledge of what it can do to the system.

Anorexia is for the rich.
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droog

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June 21, 2008, 01:20:06 AM
But so is depression.
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June 21, 2008, 01:59:06 AM
Quote from: J Arcane;218106I have no doubts that all the other deleterious effects of hunger will rather outweigh any positive ones.
Who says it's a positive effect?  It's an adaptive mechanism for dealing with a life-threatening situation.

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June 21, 2008, 05:05:59 AM
Quote from: droog;218109You naysayers are fatties, aren't you?

I wish!

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June 21, 2008, 05:21:48 AM
But the craziest guys I ever knew have been skinny...
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Ian Absentia

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June 21, 2008, 12:44:13 PM
Crazy, perhaps.  But were they depressed or anxious?  Huh? Huh?

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droog

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June 21, 2008, 09:02:40 PM
As a friend of mine once said: you're living with a lunatic, I'm living with a neurotic.
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June 23, 2008, 05:26:37 AM
That can't be right - everyone knows fat people are jolly!

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