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The word satiety allows to account in our language of the satisfaction excess that we experience after having satisfied a desire or a physiological need, for example eating.

When a person has eaten and that food satisfied him and for instance he has the sensation in your body of not wanting to continue eating, that is satiety.
It consists of a response that can be described as homeostatic that our body generates in a natural way when the demand from food. The satiety that your lunch gave me is enormous.

It is worth mentioning that in the languagecolloquial It is common that when someone experiences satiety in terms of food, they talk about paunchy or binge-eating, from the belly or binge that was eaten, if you ate a significant amount of food.

The concepts that are opposed to satiety are, on the one hand, that of hunger And on the other hand, need. Hunger implies the need that people and animals naturally experience to provide our bodies with food.
While need refers to lack or shortage of something that is needed or desired, either to live or to be happy.

It is in our brain, through the so-called vagus nerve and from the digestive system, where certain mechanisms activate and send the information of hunger, or, failing that, of satiety. Generally, the feeling of hunger appears every four hours, which is why we could say that satiety lasts more or less that time.

Be careful not to confuse hunger with the specific desire to eat something, because hunger basically supposes the reestablishment of Balance psychophysical through food intake.

For its part, expressionuntil you get enough It allows us to express that until it cannot be done anymore or it is full of something, it will not stop.