Your Appetite is Important. How Much Consideration Do You Give It?



Appetite is the desire to eat, influenced by various factors including physical health, emotional state, and environmental conditions, and plays a crucial role in overall health. Appetite refers to the desire to eat food, which is distinct from hunger, the body's biological response to a lack of food. While hunger signals a need for nourishment, appetite can be influenced by a variety of factors, including mood, environment, and health conditions. However, God has given us a brain structure that is capable of filtering and rationalizing the calls of the appetite. Giving in to an appetite is one of the primary causes of illness, dis-ease, and sickness.

Thankfully, we can educate our appetites. They way to achieve the behavioral change needed to improve health and prevent disease is by educating the appetite along with exercising willpower. 

Appetite education is a gradual process, something that each individual must live for themselves as a personal growth experience. To educate the appetite, we must practice mindful eating, retrain our taste buds, and learn to distinguish between physical and emotional hunger.


Some Benefits to Educating the Appetite

  1. It prevents obesity: Appetite education is the most effective tool to fight childhood obesity, which is more and more common today.

  2. Disease prevention: Educating the appetite helps prevent many cases of cancer and other related diseases.

  3. Addiction: It prevents addiction to psychoactive drugs, with all their physical, mental and social consequences. 


Health education is able to change behavior through an increase in willpower and appetite education. Fasting, or short-term food restrictions are valuable as educational tools to increase willpower and dominion over one’s appetite.


“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.”  Matthew 5:6

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