Not exact matches
Lack of sleep affects
appetite,
too: A 2012 Swedish brain - scan study identified heightened activity in the right anterior cingulate cortex — a brain region associated with hunger
control — in the sleep - deprived.
Eating
too little fat can also interfere with
appetite control.
Unfortunately, when one gets
too little sleep, leptin levels go down, so our
appetite control is not as effective.
Thyroid hormones also help
control the body's metabolic rate and cats with hyperthyroidism tend to burn up energy
too rapidly and typically suffer weight loss despite having an increased
appetite and increased food intake.
He'd been diabetic for a few years and that was under
control, but his
appetite had changed and he had become somewhat senile,
too, meowing and moaning at his water bowl.