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- Access to calorie-dense and processed foods whenever we want, wherever we want. Food advertisements and shops are everywhere, tempting us to buy something to eat even if we're not really hungry.
- Diets/eating habits that involve predominantly high calorie foods and only very little low calorie foods. Our metabolisms are not adapted to eating that many calories. Compared to vegetables, berries, leafy greens and herbs, these foods have much less volume per calorie, so we need to eat a larger amount to get full.
- Lack of micronutrients. Many processed or cooked foods lack vitamins and minerals, so you'll crave more of it to meet your needs.
- Eating out of boredom, to relieve stress or just for the taste, since processed foods are made to taste good and make you want more.
- Fixed meal times. Society tells you to eat three meals a day, even if you're not hungry. On top of that, you often have snacks in between meals and the calories add up. Eating like this alters your natural appetite regulation. The consequence: you can't differentiate appetite from being actually hungry anymore and overeat.
- Loneliness, lack of social interaction. Being by yourself most of the time increases appetite and makes emotional eating more likely because instead of having a good time with others, you need to get your dopamine from something else. And because it's so easily accessible, we often turn to food. Contrary to the cliche, this applies not only to women but to men as well. Coping with alcohol is also very common and even worse for your waistline because it's very calorie-dense while providing no nutrition to sustain a healthy body.
- Unhealthy sleep schedules and lack of sleep. Makes you more hungry due to increased ghrelin and cortisol and decreased leptin. Also because sugar helps you stay awake. It's hard to have optimal sleeping habits these days. Rotating work shifts, electronic devices, lack of physical activity, media etc.
- The fitness boom. Especially teenagers and skinny people with self-esteem issues are at risk of overeating (i.e. dirty bulking) in order to gain weight or muscle. Many people would rather have a buff look with increased body fat than be lean and athletic. Growth hormone boosting drugs and supplements like folate and B12 can also alter your appetite.
- Sedentary lifestyle, lack of physical activity. Self-explanatory.
- Lack of sunlight.
- Gut dysbiosis. Diets that lead to an overgrowth of firmicutes and decrease of bacteroidetes bacteria.
- Diets/eating habits that involve predominantly high calorie foods and only very little low calorie foods. Our metabolisms are not adapted to eating that many calories. Compared to vegetables, berries, leafy greens and herbs, these foods have much less volume per calorie, so we need to eat a larger amount to get full.
- Lack of micronutrients. Many processed or cooked foods lack vitamins and minerals, so you'll crave more of it to meet your needs.
- Eating out of boredom, to relieve stress or just for the taste, since processed foods are made to taste good and make you want more.
- Fixed meal times. Society tells you to eat three meals a day, even if you're not hungry. On top of that, you often have snacks in between meals and the calories add up. Eating like this alters your natural appetite regulation. The consequence: you can't differentiate appetite from being actually hungry anymore and overeat.
- Loneliness, lack of social interaction. Being by yourself most of the time increases appetite and makes emotional eating more likely because instead of having a good time with others, you need to get your dopamine from something else. And because it's so easily accessible, we often turn to food. Contrary to the cliche, this applies not only to women but to men as well. Coping with alcohol is also very common and even worse for your waistline because it's very calorie-dense while providing no nutrition to sustain a healthy body.
- Unhealthy sleep schedules and lack of sleep. Makes you more hungry due to increased ghrelin and cortisol and decreased leptin. Also because sugar helps you stay awake. It's hard to have optimal sleeping habits these days. Rotating work shifts, electronic devices, lack of physical activity, media etc.
- The fitness boom. Especially teenagers and skinny people with self-esteem issues are at risk of overeating (i.e. dirty bulking) in order to gain weight or muscle. Many people would rather have a buff look with increased body fat than be lean and athletic. Growth hormone boosting drugs and supplements like folate and B12 can also alter your appetite.
- Sedentary lifestyle, lack of physical activity. Self-explanatory.
- Lack of sunlight.
- Gut dysbiosis. Diets that lead to an overgrowth of firmicutes and decrease of bacteroidetes bacteria.