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Hunger is the body’s natural need to eat in order to gain energy and continue performing its basic functions and meet its nutritional needs.

Hunger appears gradually and can be postponed, unless too many hours have passed without food intake.

When we are hungry, there is no desire and need for a specific food.

A need for a specific food exists when we greatly desire a specific food or meal and this is called emotional hunger. Emotional hunger is essentially a… desire. During emotional hunger, we can consume a large amount of a specific food, resulting in overeating.

Hunger begins with the feeling of an empty stomach, continues with a lack of energy, weakness, reduced concentration, severe headache, dizziness, poor coordination of movements and may, if not preceded by food intake, result in a need for immediate rest of the body.


When we are hungry, the best food categories to give us quick energy and a feeling of fullness are the following.

1. Combining foods with complex carbohydrates
The combination of complex carbohydrates is the best for a carbohydrate-rich meal, to fill and keep glycogen stores (the body’s carbohydrate stores) in the muscles and liver high.

Carbohydrate combinations create a feeling of fullness in the body faster.

You can combine pasta with bread, potatoes with bread, rice with bread, pasta salad with whole grain crackers and corn, rice salad with corn and penne/fusilli/rigatoni pasta.

2. Proteins
Meals rich in protein increase satiety and delay the feeling of hunger after eating them because the body takes longer to digest them. If these proteins also contain fat (fatty cheese, beef) then the benefits of satiety are quicker.

3. Eggs
Eggs are incredibly filling especially boiled.
Eggs, which are very rich in protein, have a reduced glucose and insulin response (due to the lack of carbohydrates) resulting in faster satiety and faster hunger suppression.

4. Vegetables
They contain fiber and water, which add bulk to our meals and, when combined with foods rich in complex carbohydrates and proteins, help us feel full faster. Eating mushrooms (which also have protein) with our meal is incomparably better than eating green vegetables.

5. Macadamia, Brazil nut, Cashew nuts
These are the most well-known nuts with a high fat content that we can put in our salads.
Depending on the content and amount of fat and protein in the stomach, stomach emptying can be delayed by up to 5 hours. The presence of fat in the stomach results has a delay in hunger after a meal.


When we are extremely hungry we must pay attention to the way we eat, fast and incomplete chewing will create problems of indigestion and bloating and not fullness in the stomach. Indigestion and bloating will also be created by consuming more than 1 glass of water during a meal.

Consuming the above foods when we are hungry is to stop the feeling of hunger and to feel full faster after our meal.

The quantity is also important and it is known that a large amount of food in a meal can only cause us discomfort and a bad feeling.

The combinations of foods that we mentioned are NOT recommended in the case of following a diet to reduce our weight.