Hunger can make you happy

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  • karkaskompetisie
    karkaskompetisie Posts: 39
    Okay, as a former anorexic I have to say this is partly true. When you are hungry/starving your body is under stress and produces hormones like adrenaline, this can cause a 'high' that might feel like slight happiness for a little while.
  • tinamariecleg
    tinamariecleg Posts: 99 Member
    I'm with Allie...it makes me grumpy
  • Pidgeywendy
    Pidgeywendy Posts: 32 Member
    i'm sorry, but i have a long standing policy of not taking eating advice from someone that has the word "starving" as part of their nickname.

    My thoughts exactly! :wink:
  • Lleldiranne
    Lleldiranne Posts: 5,516 Member
    So I actually read the link from the OP.

    Setting aside that the article is over 5 years old (and we don't know how much older the SINGLE study is) …

    Setting aside that it is a journalist report on a study, not the study itself, and as such has all of the errors, biases, and misreporting inherent in a journalist report …

    Setting aside that the study was done on mice …


    It merely reports small increases in Ghrelin from hunger. Ghrelin is one hormone that may be associated with depression (lack of ghrelin associated with depression, that is). So, from what I can get off the article, it's unreasonable to say that hunger can make you happy. That sounds like bad reporting to me, and something easily abused by anyone who is pro-ana.



    EDIT: Trying to find the actual studies (using google as OP suggested … ha, no luck there) and I read more about ghrelin. It is not a happiness hormone - it is a hormone that may stimulate/signal hunger. Double read the linked article, and what it said was "mice with more ghrelin seemed less depressed" :huh: Some slight correlation, perhaps, between hunger and happiness, but really it seems to ignore many possible confounding factors.
  • TX_Rhon
    TX_Rhon Posts: 1,549 Member
    I'm in for the Bacon but will leave quickly when Flock of Seagull or Sarah Mac :noway: starts to sing!! Never seen Hunger Games but ready for lunch right now. I'm sure my co-workers are happy when I eat so therefore, my eating makes the entire office happy :bigsmile:

    I do, however, get happy when I eat well and stick to good choices!
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