Monday, 29 March 2010

The hunger problem

How do you know when you need to eat? You get hungry right? The physiological feeling of being hungry is not always when you are hungry but you know what it is because you have felt it before.

The problem is if this is a chemical imbalance what is making people really eat? Let us have an example, there is a boy born in a place without any animals about or other humans. The boy’s mum is dead. The baby it’s self has only ever eaten via its stomach. Forgetting the fact a baby would have very low chances of managing to survive on it’s own for a minute. How would the baby know to eat? Eating seems to be the absorbing of other things via the stomach and the baby will remember it from being inside his mother. But where does the baby get the urge to put things in its mouth? How does that link come about?

The idea of this is that if some how the baby still managed to get fed via the umbilical cord, which according to Wikipedia “supplies the fetus with oxygenated, nutrient-rich blood from the placenta. Conversely, the umbilical arteries return the deoxygenated, nutrient-depleted blood.” The problem is what is making things eat? There is nothing to relate to if all relation is removed.

The mouth is used to breathe why would anything risk damaging or blocking that to stop a feeling in the stomach? Without knowing about eating why would someone eat? The question is why would someone put food in a place so far away from the stomach? If there really is an urge to put food anything surely the rectum is nearer?

Is there something that inside really tells us where to eat? Is the fact we can swallow a hint? Also without teeth how would a baby guess it can brake up food? What I am saying is this is a problem that was over come early on but what if there is another reason we eat? What if there was a new hunger for something else? Would we know how to fill it?

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