Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The area in the brain that is believed to regulate appetite and food intake.
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- noun The area of the
brain (possibly in thehypothalamus ) supposed to controlappetite and regulatefood intake
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In summary, Dr. Green, after studying and researching this question for over 20 years, it is my firm conviction that aspartame lowers seizure threshold, mimics or exacerbates a wide variety of neuropsychiatric disorders, contributes to the incidence of certain cancers, and because of it's impact on the hypothalamic "appestat" plays a significant role in the world-wide epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
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I was resetting my appestat that internal regulator of appetite control that I had badly damaged with bingeing and purging.
CSS: Shaping the New You Jack Canfield 2010
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It requires more and more and more and more as if its collective appestat were damaged.
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I was resetting my appestat that internal regulator of appetite control that I had badly damaged with bingeing and purging.
CSS: Shaping the New You Jack Canfield 2010
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It is a major factor destroying appestat control of appetite control with blood sugar, and endorphin related hypothalamic pituitary axis.
ASPARTAME IS NEUROTOXIC GENOTOXIC MOLECULAR FOOD & VACCINE PHARMACO-GENOCIDE 2008
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In my case, one of those benefits was suddenly having a functioning appestat, and a side effect of THAT was losing body fat.
Majikthise on that “maybe fat isn’t so awful” JAMA study 2005
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There is a thing our bodies seem to have, called an “appestat.”
Majikthise on that “maybe fat isn’t so awful” JAMA study 2005
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Having gone from having no functioning appestat to almost overnight having one, I am excruciatingly aware of the difference.
Majikthise on that “maybe fat isn’t so awful” JAMA study 2005
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But I do think that having a functioning appestat is a good thing.
Majikthise on that “maybe fat isn’t so awful” JAMA study 2005
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This is why my particular plan works so well for me: It restored the functioning of my appestat and removed the 95 percent of my problem with food that was biochemical rather than genuinely emotional.
Majikthise on that “maybe fat isn’t so awful” JAMA study 2005
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