Hunger affects our emotions

Viren Swami, a psychologist at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, conducted a study on the incidence of hunger about people. The experiment was done on 64 subjects between the ages of 18 and 60. For three weeks they took the emotions and the feeling of hunger 5 times a day, using an app. The data were related to age, sex, body weight, character and eating habits. As a result, hunger makes even people who are naturally calm aggressive and irritable. Hunger was linked to 37% irritability, 34% anger and 38% pleasure. Data demonstrating the influence of mood on nutrition.

Feeling hungry is associated with feelings of anger and lower levels of pleasure. It follows that negative emotions are related to the degree of hunger a person feels. Often it just happens to be angry or nervous without knowing why. By recognizing the cause of negative emotions, you can do something concrete to reduce or eliminate them.

Viren Swami

We chose a field approach where participants were asked to respond to requests to complete short surveys on an app. These messages were sent at semi-random times five times a day over a three-week period. This allowed us to generate intensive longitudinal data in a way that is not possible with traditional laboratory research.

Stefan Stieger, psychologist at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Austria

Here, before you get mad at someone, it’s always better to make sure you’ve had a hearty meal! If not, we eat and can be objective. So how does hunger affect the behavior of those who feel it? Scholars argue that anger and aggression increase with a low level of glucose in the blood.

Animal experiments have shown that proper nutrition is essential for the active maintenance of cognitive skills. Even children with poor nutrition, for example, have difficulty maintaining their concentration and have behavioral disorders. Healthy eating is the foundation of health.