GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Just Born, Masseter Muscle, Hypothalamus
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Diet are not motivated over concern of health. We have a natural instinct to eat and hard wired. Drive to eat by the particular part of the human brain (hypothalamus) Hypothalamus gives you the controls hunger and aggression: sense out signal and response to the satisfaction/ reward we get from chewing + swallow, particular happy when it detects fat food and sweet, sends out pleasure signals. Incase in eating ready meals and convenience meat products, pizza, crisps. Profit in the process of preparing food. When you are happy you have high levels of pea. Winning lottery your level of pea goes up. Too much of a good thing is a bad thing. People don"t pick the time to eat but eat when hungry. Because there is a reward and satisfaction that is return from the urge to eat. If things are rare and hard to get or uncommonly eaten we have an enhance taste of it taste.