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Taste, satiation, hunger: how do they interact?
Taste is a relatively straightforward chemical reaction resulting in neurological representation.
Hunger is a slightly more complex physiological condition, largely driven by the organism's response to nutrient levels in the blood stream. Hunger, then, is not so much about the contents of the stomach at any given time. The stomach can be full and distended and the organism can starve, die of malnurishment.
But hunger is also used synonymously with desire, which relates it to satiation, which has almost nothing at all to do with such simple and physically grounded phenomena as hunger or taste. The simplest example is to consider an organism at a point in time when it has all the nutrients it needs and reasonably "should" have at any one point in time, but which is also at that time experiencing highly stimulating tastes. If the organism is a human and those tastes are sugar or salt is it quite likely that the intense experience of desirable tastes will lead to continued eating completely unrelated to that person's physiological needs for food.
It is plausible to think that in some context there was a relationship between taste and desirability of foodstuffs, such that in pre-cognitive animals the stimulation caused by some tastes caused increased consumption of such foodstuffs to the animal's general long term benefit. But in the context of modern life this has served to damage millions of us.
Desire for food (the taste or smell or feel or even the socializing and structuring aspects of food) has nothing to do with hunger. What the body needs and what the person wants are unrelated. And our greatest enemy is that category of foodstuffs that fill without satiating.
Conversely, to the extent we limit our consumption to items that satiate, we will approach eating habits that actually conform to the bodies needs.
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