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That’s not at all how satiety works. People over eat for all kinds of reasons and there is a lot of low volume and highly calorically dense food available now. You feel full a little while after you’ve hit a certain level of physical fullness in your stomach.

Very few people in the west have meaningful micro nutrient deficiencies.



Or do we not have micro nutrient deficiencies because we overeat in order to hit those needs?

Obviously there's flaws in my silly theory. I'm not a biologist or chemist, just something I think correlates in an interesting way.


The why doesn’t really matter, we don’t have a hunger regulation mechanism that relates to micro nutrients.




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