Getting To Know Hedonis And His Link To Obesity

Experts say eating hedonis can cause obesity in humans. (Unsplash)

JAKARTA Eating snacks even though just finished eating and being full seems to be a common thing lately. In fact, this increases the risk of obesity.

Historically, the goal of humans to eat is to survive. But over time, when food availability becomes very varied, not a few humans eat food just for pleasure, not for energy.

According to experts, this phenomenon is defined as hedonis hunger. Simply put, hedonis hunger describes the experience of finding food not because of physical hunger, but for pleasure.

One expert added that apart from pleasure, people's eating habits are mostly related to several variables including emotions, stress avoidance, and discomfort.

The word hedonis in it is taken from the Greek,hedone, which means pleasure. In Greek mythology, hedone is Dewi a pleasure.

The term hedonis eating is increasingly being discussed in the past few years, along with the increasing variety of food. But on the other hand, eating hedonis is also said to have taken part in increasing cases of overweight or overweight, especially among teenagers.

But according to scientists, hedonis hunger occurs when a person does not feel biologically hungry. This feeling of hunger arises precisely because of the desire to eat food for pleasure.

One of the most common examples is the appearance of desire and then eating a piece of cake after a filling meal. This is driven because it wants to fulfill pleasure, and not because it requires energy.

When people seek pleasure through food, do they have a bowl of green vegetables or refreshing fruits? The answer is not always.

This is what experts regret. Hedonis hunger is mostly triggered by the circulation of foods high in sugar, fat, and salt. Hedonis's encouragement to eat unhealthy foods is then associated with obesity.

"We are now surrounded by very delicious, easy to get, and ready to eat," according to James Stubbs, Professor of Food Lust and Energy Balance at the University of Leeds.

This is a recipe for weight gain and obesity in modern society. No wonder, one in eight people on earth is currently obese.

In recent years, hedonis' diet has been studied as one of the biggest triggers for obesity. This happens because modern society is flooded with food that is easy to obtain and goes through various processes, so that our brains looking for pleasure force us to eat it.

The obesity endemic has nothing to do with calorie needs, Michael Lowe's eyes, psychology professor Drexel University, citing Oxford Academic.

"This has something to do with the desire to eat more and, from my point of view, the pleasure of certain foods, and calories that enter the body," he added.

As mentioned earlier, this delicious but dangerous food is everywhere. Processed foods such as mild drinks, bread, Goodminton, and frozen pizza account for nearly 60 percent of the daily calories of Americans.

Although delicious and thought to be able to please the heart, these products are a combination of artificial sugar, salt, fat, and taste. This is an industrial recipe that is calibrated appropriately to tease tastes.

Once weighing more, any effort to reduce it can backfire, said Kevin Hall, a metabolism expert at the National Institutes of Health.

He added that humans in today's era are not at all ready to face these consequences, even though our bodies are basically the same as 10 thousand years ago when we lived in nature.

When physical hunger has a signal to stop, hedonis' diet is even more difficult to control. With modern life making it easy to get food, many people have to constantly grapple with uncontrollable appetite.

One of the things we've learned is that there's often no button when we have more than we need, when we eat for pleasure, Lowe ends.