How understanding the seven ages of appetite could help us stay healthy


Be Healthy: Do you eat to live or live to eat? We have a complicated relationship with food, influenced by cost, availability, even peer pressure. But something we all share is appetite – our desire to eat.
Increased appetite might have a physical or psychological dimension, but while hunger – our body’s way of making us desire food when it needs feeding – is a part of appetite, it is not the only factor. After all, we often eat when we’re not hungry, or may skip a meal despite pangs of hunger.
Recent research has highlighted that the abundance of food cues – smells, sounds, advertising – in our environment is one of the main causes of overconsumption.
Our appetite is not fixed, it changes across our lifespan as we age. But as our choice of food will be an important factor to our health and wellbeing throughout our lives, it’s important that we get into the right habits.
As Shakespeare might have put it, there are seven ages of appetite, and a better understanding of these phases would help us to develop new ways of tackling undereating and overconsumption, and particularly the health effects, such as obesity, that follow.

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