Your boss decides that today, he/she is going to give you an important task that needs to be done immediately. There is only one problem. You need to give this task your full and complete focus and are unable to do so because you haven’t eaten in what feels like days. Instead of thinking on how to complete the task, you’re honed in on the fact that your stomach is doing summersaults and sounds like a machine that’s clogged. We’ve all been there, right? It’s something that we deal with on a daily basis, but what do we actually know about it? One definition from Webster’s dictionary for hunger is a craving or urgent need for food or a specific nutrient (1.a). Most people believe that hunger is the same thing as appetite. When they see a commercial …show more content…
Humans normally think the brain processes sensory information from the outside world, but in fact this is not entirely true. Our brain is constantly sifting through signals from within. While our main external senses are gathering information from the outside world our organs are sending information to our brain about what is going on inside our body. For example, molecules like glucose and insulin - they convey information about what our body needs and sends that information directly to the central nervous …show more content…
A great many people’s response to a headache is to instantly seek medication that will temporarily relieve the headache. This can actually be a problem if the headache the person is being triggered by hunger that isn’t actually a need for food. Although there isn’t a 100% reason for each person, there are a few things that are thought to be the reason. One is that when you are hungry, your muscles tighten up which can cause a tension headache. The other is that your body tried to counteract the low blood sugar with certain hormones that can cause headaches