Appetite and Hunger

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Difference between Appetite and Hunger

Appetite vs. Hunger

Appetite is the desire to eat food, sometimes due to hunger. In politics, humanitarian aid, and social science, hunger is a condition in which a person, for a sustained period, is unable to eat sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs.

Similarities between Appetite and Hunger

Appetite and Hunger have 5 things in common (in Unionpedia): Food, Ghrelin, Leptin, Malnutrition, Peptide YY.

Food

Food is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for an organism.

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Ghrelin

Ghrelin (pronounced), the "hunger hormone", also known as lenomorelin (INN), is a peptide hormone produced by ghrelinergic cells in the gastrointestinal tract which functions as a neuropeptide in the central nervous system.

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Leptin

Leptin (from Greek λεπτός leptos, "thin"), "the hormone of energy expenditure", is a hormone predominantly made by adipose cells that helps to regulate energy balance by inhibiting hunger.

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Malnutrition

Malnutrition is a condition that results from eating a diet in which one or more nutrients are either not enough or are too much such that the diet causes health problems.

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Peptide YY

Peptide YY (PYY) also known as peptide tyrosine tyrosine is a peptide that in humans is encoded by the PYY gene.

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Appetite and Hunger Comparison

Appetite has 88 relations, while Hunger has 158. As they have in common 5, the Jaccard index is 2.03% = 5 / (88 + 158).

References

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