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Appetitive components |
Any act involving food before actually eating |
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Seeking out of food |
Detection and identification of food and latency to eat handling and subjugation |
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Cost benefit analysis |
Dangers, predators, competitors, trade-off with other behaviors (sex), hedonic value, prior history, experience how suuitable is the food for consumption |
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Consummatory components |
Behaviors involved in the consumption of food licking, chewing swallowing -actual act of ingestion |
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Lipids |
Source of energy from fats |
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Glucose |
Source of energy from carbohydrates (complex starch and sugars |
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Amino acids |
Source of energy from protein |
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Body fat |
The majority of the body's energy is stored this way. It is very efficient |
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Glycogen |
The most utilized form of stored energy found in the liver and muscles |
More accessible than body fat but requires more water |
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Muscle proteins |
Less utilized form of energy storage |
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Insulin |
A pancreatic hormone released during the cephalic and absorptive phases. It promotes glucose use, energy conversion and energy storage. |
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Glucagon |
A pancreatic hormone secreted during the fasting stage. It promotes the use of stored tissue. |
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Cephalic phase |
Preparatory phase, which is initiated by the sight, smell or expectation of food |
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Absorptive phase |
Nutrients from a meal meeting the body's immediate energy requirements, with the excess being stored |
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Fasting phase |
Energy being withdrawn from stores to meet the body's immediate needs |
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Glucostatic theory |
A set point theory which assumes that glucose levels are monitored and a drop triggers hunger |
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Lipostatic theory |
A set point theory which assumes that lipids levels are monitored and a drop triggers hunger |
Long term |