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The sentence, "The often unpleasant feeling of hunger originates from the hypothalamus releasing hormones that target receptors in the liver," is not cited. For good reason: there is no evidence to support the statement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.14.211.190 ( talk) 03:02, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
"Munchies" redirects here, but there is nothing in the article explaining why drinking beer makes you hungry when you aren't, nor does it seem to link to anything explaining the topic. 86.131.98.38 ( talk) 22:02, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
In the first sentence of the article, it says hunger is a feeling, and the word feeling is linked to the article "emotion". Is hunger considered an emotion? I've never heard it considered as one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Kytan Apprentice ( talk • contribs) 20:32, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
I question the use of the word organism on this page in junction with adipocytes and other characteristics of animals. It is doubtful that plants and fungi feel hunger in the generally accepted use of the word. Questionable as well for bacteria, archea and protists, yet these are all organisms. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.243.175.19 ( talk) 08:39, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
I am an undergraduate psychology student at Clemson University and will be working with my instructor Dr. June Pilcher and the APS Wikipedia Initiative to improve this article over the next couple of weeks. Any suggestions or input along the way would be greatly appreciated. Craigjclemson ( talk) 14:54, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
In the lead section the article states that "The sensation of hunger typically manifests after only a few hours without eating" yet in the hunger pangs section the article says "Hunger pangs usually do not begin until 12 to 24 hours after the last ingestion of food." A few hours would typically be considered to be around 2-4 hours not the 12-24 hours later mentioned in the article. Can someone clarify this? Neither of the two statements are sourced. 131.251.252.33 ( talk) 00:23, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Can we change "full" to "satisfied?" "Full" implies the opposite of hunger is fullness, rather than being satisfied, and it contributes to the false idea that you're supposed to feel full rather than satisfied (aka "sated," as in "satiety") after you eat, which contributes to the obesity problem in Western (particularly English-speaking) countries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.139.101.45 ( talk) 17:07, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
Hunger is both a sensation and a motivation. In hunger, we feel not only the motivation, the urge to eat, but we also feel that sensation unique to hunger that distinguishes it from, say, nausea, itch or unirary urgency. The present disambiguator (motivational state) excludes the sensation. The term "feeling" can include both sensation and motivation. Antonio Damasio uses "primordial feeling." Derek Denton uses "primordial emotion." "Emotion," too, can mean both sensation and motivation but readers are used to referring to hunger, nausea, etc. as feelings, not emotions, so I think "primordial feeling" is more reader-friendly than "primordial emotion" and just as accurate. Bud Craig uses "homeostatic emotion", which tells the reader something about the function of the feeling, but I still prefer the reader-friendliness of "primordial feeling." For sources please see Homeostatic emotion. May I make the move? -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 13:55, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
The original proposal to move the article on the motivational state to Hunger (primordial feeling) makes sense and I support it. I'm taken a back though that you guys have moved and then merged the original Hunger article down to a redirect. To be fair, there is some logic to what you've done; dictionaries for example tend to give the motivational state as there no 1 definition under 'Hunger'. But if we google Hunger, there is over half a billion hits, and sources treating Hunger as a sociological problem out number those treating it as a motivational condition by about 99:1. Hunger as a sociological problem is something that causes suffering to about a billion people, with tens of millions working for its alleviation in the hunger relief field. Whereas I think you’d find that only a few hundred scientists currently work on hunger as a motivational condition, and those are mainly focussed on the dieting aspect, which the article doesn’t even mention. Hundreds of hours had gone into researching and editing the original article on the vital topic of hunger as a sociological problem. Before moving the original topic, it would have been better to start a discussion on the talk page of the original hunger article, which compared to this page, had over 100x the page views and many times the watchers. As you did not do this, I'm going to request this move is reversed as insufficiently discussed. Then I can undo Jtydogs harmful merge into Malnutrition. FeydHuxtable ( talk) 22:17, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
My initial thoughts are these: I'd like to see a good description of hunger's functional neuroanatomy, from the chemo- and baroreceptors through to the frontal lobes. Hunger's role in homeostasis should be made clear, as should its impact on mood and the higher cognitive functions like attention and memory. We should describe the physiological effects of food deprivation that trigger the hunger receptors but should probably leave the health and social impacts of food deprivation to Starvation and Malnutrition. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 13:28, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
A merge request has been created to merge this article into appetite Walidou47 ( talk) 09:23, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
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The sentence, "The often unpleasant feeling of hunger originates from the hypothalamus releasing hormones that target receptors in the liver," is not cited. For good reason: there is no evidence to support the statement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.14.211.190 ( talk) 03:02, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
"Munchies" redirects here, but there is nothing in the article explaining why drinking beer makes you hungry when you aren't, nor does it seem to link to anything explaining the topic. 86.131.98.38 ( talk) 22:02, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
In the first sentence of the article, it says hunger is a feeling, and the word feeling is linked to the article "emotion". Is hunger considered an emotion? I've never heard it considered as one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Kytan Apprentice ( talk • contribs) 20:32, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
I question the use of the word organism on this page in junction with adipocytes and other characteristics of animals. It is doubtful that plants and fungi feel hunger in the generally accepted use of the word. Questionable as well for bacteria, archea and protists, yet these are all organisms. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.243.175.19 ( talk) 08:39, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
I am an undergraduate psychology student at Clemson University and will be working with my instructor Dr. June Pilcher and the APS Wikipedia Initiative to improve this article over the next couple of weeks. Any suggestions or input along the way would be greatly appreciated. Craigjclemson ( talk) 14:54, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
In the lead section the article states that "The sensation of hunger typically manifests after only a few hours without eating" yet in the hunger pangs section the article says "Hunger pangs usually do not begin until 12 to 24 hours after the last ingestion of food." A few hours would typically be considered to be around 2-4 hours not the 12-24 hours later mentioned in the article. Can someone clarify this? Neither of the two statements are sourced. 131.251.252.33 ( talk) 00:23, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
Can we change "full" to "satisfied?" "Full" implies the opposite of hunger is fullness, rather than being satisfied, and it contributes to the false idea that you're supposed to feel full rather than satisfied (aka "sated," as in "satiety") after you eat, which contributes to the obesity problem in Western (particularly English-speaking) countries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.139.101.45 ( talk) 17:07, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
Hunger is both a sensation and a motivation. In hunger, we feel not only the motivation, the urge to eat, but we also feel that sensation unique to hunger that distinguishes it from, say, nausea, itch or unirary urgency. The present disambiguator (motivational state) excludes the sensation. The term "feeling" can include both sensation and motivation. Antonio Damasio uses "primordial feeling." Derek Denton uses "primordial emotion." "Emotion," too, can mean both sensation and motivation but readers are used to referring to hunger, nausea, etc. as feelings, not emotions, so I think "primordial feeling" is more reader-friendly than "primordial emotion" and just as accurate. Bud Craig uses "homeostatic emotion", which tells the reader something about the function of the feeling, but I still prefer the reader-friendliness of "primordial feeling." For sources please see Homeostatic emotion. May I make the move? -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 13:55, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
The original proposal to move the article on the motivational state to Hunger (primordial feeling) makes sense and I support it. I'm taken a back though that you guys have moved and then merged the original Hunger article down to a redirect. To be fair, there is some logic to what you've done; dictionaries for example tend to give the motivational state as there no 1 definition under 'Hunger'. But if we google Hunger, there is over half a billion hits, and sources treating Hunger as a sociological problem out number those treating it as a motivational condition by about 99:1. Hunger as a sociological problem is something that causes suffering to about a billion people, with tens of millions working for its alleviation in the hunger relief field. Whereas I think you’d find that only a few hundred scientists currently work on hunger as a motivational condition, and those are mainly focussed on the dieting aspect, which the article doesn’t even mention. Hundreds of hours had gone into researching and editing the original article on the vital topic of hunger as a sociological problem. Before moving the original topic, it would have been better to start a discussion on the talk page of the original hunger article, which compared to this page, had over 100x the page views and many times the watchers. As you did not do this, I'm going to request this move is reversed as insufficiently discussed. Then I can undo Jtydogs harmful merge into Malnutrition. FeydHuxtable ( talk) 22:17, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
My initial thoughts are these: I'd like to see a good description of hunger's functional neuroanatomy, from the chemo- and baroreceptors through to the frontal lobes. Hunger's role in homeostasis should be made clear, as should its impact on mood and the higher cognitive functions like attention and memory. We should describe the physiological effects of food deprivation that trigger the hunger receptors but should probably leave the health and social impacts of food deprivation to Starvation and Malnutrition. -- Anthonyhcole ( talk · contribs · email) 13:28, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
A merge request has been created to merge this article into appetite Walidou47 ( talk) 09:23, 4 February 2020 (UTC)