Nutrition & Food Sciences

Diet & Appetite

Healthy lifestyle involves many choices, among them healthy eating and maintaining a balanced diet is required. A diet is said to be balanced when it contains the required amounts of food and drinks to provide adequate nutrition and energy for the maintenance of body cells, organs and tissues for the normal growth and development. There are two types of hormones which controls the appetite which is the desire to eat food; “hunger hormones", leptin and endocrine. Leptin is a hormone, created by fat cells, that decreases your craving. Endocrine is a hormone that will increase craving, and conjointly plays a job in bodyweight.