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There will also be genetic predisposition – which, by the way, matters less than is often believed – but, if you have several extra pounds, it will be because you have more appetite than average or because become uninhibited towards food? It would seem that the second reason is doing more damage. The term uninhibited may sound very strange when it comes to eating habits, but this is exactly what the vast international prospective study recently published in theInternational Journal of Obesity, conducted on over 1,800 men and 600 women, followed by 45 to 65 years. Explain Stefano Erzegovesi, director of the Eating Disorders Center of the San Raffaele Hospital, Milan: In the study we distinguish, and a really interesting distinction, those who eat too much because they are hungrier (or feel they have it) and those who cannot resist temptations. For example, a good perfume that comes out of a bakery or a rotisserie, a successful advertisement for a food, a well presented dish with captivating colors, the influence of convivial situations, and so on.
Emotion regulation
It is not easy to distinguish between the two stimuli, especially since they both lead to the same result: eat more than the body requires. Hunger is an internal physiological stimulus that leads to the physical need to eat; the so-called “disinhibition” is instead an “opportunistic” way of feeding, which it involves the regulation of emotions and which concerns the availability and palatability of what is available. In the first case we eat, so to speak, “what is there”; in the second, one exaggerates if attracted by a particular food. And it must be said that today the choice is enormous and that food advertising is made on purpose to seduce.
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