Hunger and Eating (ch.12) Flashcards

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Homeostasis

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  • Maintains internal states within a critical range
  • Because things like warmth water and food are VITAL and SCARCE
  • > We have elaborate systems to monitor and maintain them
  • Primarily employs negative feedback mechanisms (deviation from a set point triggers a compensatory (recompense someone who has experienced loss) response.
  • Generally a set zone and not a set point
  • Otherwise no tolerance in the system leading to constant fluctuations between on and off
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2 hallmarks of these systems:

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  1. Redundancy think “failsafe” backup system

2. Rely on Behaviour to acquire more water and food etc

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Food and energy regulation

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  • Requires an anticipation for future needs
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What us food necessary for:

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  • Energy

- Critical nutrients (essential amino acids/ vitamins/ minerals)

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Because food availability is unpredictable…

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We must have a reserve at all times

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6
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Why is it difficult to lose weight?

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  • As intake decreases so does basal metabolism (# of calories your body would burn if you stayed in bed all day) - in effort to maintain body weight
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Calories Restriction:

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Only known way to increase longevity in animals

  • Reduction of daily caloric intake by 50-75 % increases lifespan
  • > May be related to a decrease in the basal metabolism
  • > may involve SIRT a ubiquitous protein that can control the production of trophic factors ( promote cell growth and survival
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JAPANESE STUDY IN TEXTBOOK

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Immediate Energy Sources

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  • Immediate source of energy for the body: complex carbs
  • Complex carbs are broken into sugars
  • Primary sugar used by body: glucose
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Short Term Energy Sources

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  • We need steady supply of energy between meals - body has mechanisms for storing it
  • GLUCOSE is converted to GLYCOGEN in a process called glycogenesis
  • > promoted by Insulin
  • > Glycogen is primarily stored in the liver and muscles
  • When blood glucose decreases (between meals) Glycogen is removed from storage back into glucose
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Longer Term Energy Sources:

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  • Take place in the form of fat
  • fat is deposited into fat storing cells that form adipose tissue
    -> some fats are stored directly from diet (fatty acids)
    Others are from excess sugars
  • during SHORT TERM food storage (process = gluconeogensis)
  • during LONGER TERM food storage (process= ketogenesis) -> brain can also use ketones for energy in this case
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12
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What is the basis for ketogenic diets?

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High protein; low carb

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13
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What is crucial for regulation of body metabolism?

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Insulin

  • 2 key points:
    1. Insulin is crucial for conversion of glucose to glycogen
    2. Insulin is crucial for enabling the body to use glucose
  • Glucose transporters span cell membranes and move glucose into cells
  • Peripheral cell glucose transporters only function in the presence of insulin
  • Glucose transporters in the brain do not require insulin
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3 Factors that stimulate Insulin Release:

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  1. Sensory stimulation from food elicit conditioned release of insulin - Cephalic Phase
  2. During digestion - food entering the stomach/intestine - gut hormones - insulin release
  3. Absorptive Phase - glucodetectors: cells in the liver detect glucose entering circulation and signal for pancreas to release insulin
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Lack of Insulin - Diabetes Mellitus (Type 1)

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  • Pancreas stops making insulin
  • Brain can still use clucose as insulin not needed to uptake by cells HOWEVER body cannot use glucose in the absence of insulin
  • Body starts using fatty acids for energy
  • Lack of insulin also prevents glucose from being stored as glycogen THEFORE it is excreted in urine
  • Diabetes Mellitus literally means
    “passing honey”
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16
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Treatment for Diabetes Mellitus (type 1)

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  • Replacement Insulin

- Symptoms: eat a lot, lose weight, thirst and frequent urination, fatty acids use can lead to tissue damage

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Hypothalamus Coordinates Multiple systems that…

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Control hunger

  • No single brain region controls hunger
  • Hypothalamus is critically in- compacted and redundant
18
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Appetite is controlled by 2 opposing centers (THEORY)

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  1. Satiety Center - VMH, when lesioned animals to not become satisfied
  2. Hunger center - LH, when lesioned animals do not eat (aphasia)
    - THEORY IS TOO SIMPLE
19
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The Arcuate Nucleus of the Hypothalamus contains a highly specialized appetite controller: controlled by circulating hormones including:

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Insulin
Leptin
Ghrelin
Peptide YY

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Leptin:

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Charachterized by:

  • Larger and more fat cells
  • maintain obesity even on unpalatable food (lack satiety)
  • maintain obesity when required to work hard for food
  • Screted from fat cells
  • Leptin receptors found in several hypothalamic nuclei
  • Brain seems to monitor fat stores using leptin
  • More overweight the higher the leptin (controls hunger and feeling of satiety)
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Ghrelin

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  • Released from cells of the stomach, appetite simulant
  • Administration of Ghrelin - increased appetite
  • Increases during fasten phase and decreases upon consumption
  • Odly obese people have decreased ghrelin levels vs lean people, but their ghrelin does not drop after a meal
  • Obesity may involve gherkin system that doesn’t repond to feeding - constant promotion of hunger
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PYY (3-36)

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  • Secreted from cells of small and large intestine
  • Levels are low before meal
  • Rapid increase during meal
  • Systemic or intra-ARC admin decreases appetite
  • Low levels correlated with Obesity
  • May work in opposition to Ghrelin
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Arcuate Appetite Controller

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