appetite suppression
Curbing food desire
Appetite suppression is the reduction or elimination of hunger signals.
Diet pills and stimulants achieve this pharmacologically; illness, stress, or grief can do it naturally.
The term appears in discussions of weight loss and eating disorders: The medication's main effect is appetite suppression.
To suppress appetite is the verb form.
- ghrelinAppetite-stimulating stomach peptide
- phenterminePrescription appetite suppressant
- leptinFat-derived hunger regulator
- cachexiaSevere illness-induced wasting
- hypothalamusSubthalamic regulatory brain region
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eating behavior outcome
appetite suppressionbinge eating
Excessive uncontrolled food intake
overeating · compulsive eating · gorging · gluttony · food obsession