NUTRITION
ESSENTIAL NUTRIENTS
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the need for food
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the process by which the body takes in and uses food
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the want for food
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the measurement for the amount of energy in food
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Detailed explanation-1: -Appetite is a person’s desire to eat food. It is distinct from hunger, which is the body’s biological response to a lack of food. A person can have an appetite even if their body is not showing signs of hunger, and vice versa.
Detailed explanation-2: -It is the body’s physiological need for food. While hunger is often a feeling of discomfort arising from a lack of food, appetite is simply the desire to eat. And unlike hunger, appetite is not necessarily due to the psychological need to eat. You can develop an appetite after seeing, smelling, or thinking about food.
Detailed explanation-3: -appetite noun (FOOD) the feeling that you want to eat food: All that walking has given me an appetite. I won’t have any chocolate, thanks. It will spoil (= reduce) my appetite.
Detailed explanation-4: -Appetite is the desire to eat food items, usually due to hunger. Appealing foods can stimulate appetite even when hunger is absent, although appetite can be greatly reduced by satiety. Appetite exists in all higher life-forms, and serves to regulate adequate energy intake to maintain metabolic needs.