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Eating disorder and Hunger

Shortcuts: Differences, Similarities, Jaccard Similarity Coefficient, References.

Difference between Eating disorder and Hunger

Eating disorder vs. Hunger

An eating disorder is a mental disorder defined by abnormal eating habits that negatively affect a person's physical or mental health. 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 Eating disorder and Hunger

Eating disorder and Hunger have 3 things in common (in Unionpedia): Ghrelin, Leptin, Starvation.

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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Starvation

Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake, below the level needed to maintain an organism's life.

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Eating disorder and Hunger Comparison

Eating disorder has 234 relations, while Hunger has 158. As they have in common 3, the Jaccard index is 0.77% = 3 / (234 + 158).

References

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