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Psychology Essay

In dealing with eating habits many factors play a large part. Some of them are natural and some of them occur from nurture, as do most of the occurrences in our lives. Brain chemistry, brain structure and genetics all naturally influence eating habits. Nurture produces habits based on reinforcement, modeling and culture and these are very important to eating habits also.

            Scientists have found that even without stomachs’ animals and humans still get hungry. This is because hunger does not just occur because someone has an empty stomach. It occurs because of many uncontrollable circumstances, brain chemistry is one such circumstance. When blood glucose levels in your body get low your stomach, small intestines, and liver tell the brain to make you hungry. These signals from your body are processed in the Hypothalamus. There are two regions to the Hypothalamus one to induce hunger called the Lateral Hypothalamus and the other to suppress hunger called the Ventromedial Hypothalamus. When stimulating either one of these places in the brain you can change the eating habits of the person or animal.

            Genetics also play a big part in how people eat. Some people are external eaters. This means that their cues to eat are based on external stimuli; whereas someone who is an internal eater may only eat when they are hungry. These internal-external factors are usually the same in children as they are in their parents.

            Parents also influence children’s eating habits in other ways. Have you ever had a bad day only to go home and eat a pint of ice cream to put yourself in a good mood? This would illustrate that at some point you were taught reinforcement for this behavior. This means that because at some point in your life you got this elated feeling after eating ice cream you may attribute your good mood to the ice cream and may feel that in the future eating the ice cream will have the...

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