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What is an appestat?

What is an appestat? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The area of the brain (possibly in the hypothalamus) supposed to control appetite and regulate food intake
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We're not in sync with our appestat when we eat, and we don't allow the body to catch up.
A positive error in the appestat of only 0.36percentt could lead to an accumulation of 20 pounds of surplus fat by middle age.
Your appestat is a control mechanism that has been fine-tuned for hundreds of generations.
Just as a thermostat regulates the temperature in your house, the appestat regulates the appetite control.
This is because their appestat tells them to keep eating because the food in their diet lacks nutritional value.
When the appestat is normal, it balances the intake of food calories against expenditures, causing people to eat what they need for energy, no more, no less.

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