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Taking control: FAQs and resources
Published in Jenny Radcliffe, Cut Down to Size, 2013
Inevitably your relationship with food will change after weight loss surgery. You will need to work hard to ensure that you have regular nutritious meals and that you eat food slowly and thoughtfully. Many patients feel less hungry, more in control of their eating and less vulnerable to binge episodes. Before surgery prospective bariatric patients often speak of wanting to eat to live rather than live to eat, and for many weight loss surgery offers this. There is also evidence that gastric bypass in particular decreases hedonic hunger, the wanting hunger rather than the needing or physical hunger.
Does hedonic hunger predict eating behavior and body mass in adolescents with overweight or obesity?
Published in Children's Health Care, 2022
Kirandeep Kaur, Chad D. Jensen
In modern times, well-nourished populations frequently consume food for hedonic reasons rather than in response to acute energy deprivation (Lowe & Butryn, 2007). Reward associated with eating for pleasure rather than the need for calories, a behavior often referred to as hedonic hunger, may drive excess consumption of food. Hedonic hunger is defined as a subjective state of pleasure experienced when consuming high-energy foods which produce eating in the absence of hunger (Lowe & Levine, 2005). Hedonic models of hunger explain that “environment” is the catalyst for eating when not hungry, and people will often eat simply because of food availability, even in the absence of homeostatic hunger (Birch, Fisher, & Davison, 2003; Lowe & Levine, 2005; Painter, Wansink, & Hieggelke, 2002). Furthermore, the obesogenic environment is replete with inexpensive food, which decreases the cost associated with hedonic eating (Papies, Stroebe, & Aarts, 2007). Hedonic hunger also explains why many individuals experience frequent thoughts, feelings, and urges about food even when they are not hungry and these experiences may or may not have occurred due to exposure to food-related cues (Lowe & Butryn, 2007; Papies et al., 2007).
Applying the developmental model of use disorders to hedonic hunger: a narrative review
Published in Journal of Addictive Diseases, 2022
Mary Takgbajouah, Joanna Buscemi
It has been shown that overconsumption is often driven by factors other than homeostatic hunger, or hunger driven by energy need.5 Hedonic hunger (HH) occurs when people are driven to consume food for pleasure, rather than to replenish a caloric deficit.5 Research has found that individuals are often preoccupied by thoughts, feelings, and urges about food, even when they are not homeostatically hungry, and that some individuals have a higher frequency of HH than others.5 Additional studies have found numerous similarities between binge eating disorder (BED) and substance use disorder (SUD), causing researchers to speculate about the existence of food addiction (FA),6 characterized by a reward response-driven, injurious, and compulsive cycle of uncontrollable overconsumption of highly palatable foods.6