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Maintenance of energy balance is a critical feature for species survival and elegant physiological mechanisms have evolved throughout the years in order to maintain homeostasis (Woods and D’Alessio 2008). One of these mechanisms is satiation, defined as the process that leads to the termination of eating, thus plays an important role in the system of appetite control. As a physiological component of humans, satiation acts as an energy regulator, manifested as a sensation during food consumption, the main roles of which are to signal when enough energy has been consumed and consequently, leads to the cessation of eating.
Normally, satiation is accompanied by satiety, which is the persistent sensation of fullness post ingestion. Satiety has the important role of signaling that no further energy intake is necessary until feeling hunger again (Benelam 2009; Blundell 1999). Satiation primarily depends on the volume of food ingested and is not always dependent on caloric value....
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Anversa, R.G., Brown, R.M. (2019). Satiation. In: Vonk, J., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1050-1
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