Maternal receptiveness to a fetal mechanism for prompting eating where energy supplies are low, could arguably serve not just the interests of the growing fetus but also the pregnant woman, who optimally nourished will better withstand labour, birth and the subsequent demands of lactation.
But any kind of change can stimulate feelings that prompt emotional eating.
But it doesn't take a major life change like a life-threatening disease or divorce to prompt emotional eating.
An abundance of hyper stimulating advertising and easily-obtainable high energy palatable food likely encourages dysfunctional cognitive biases that prompt pathological eating behaviours [ 1].
They were children who deferred by instinct, not peacemakers but peacekeepers, knobby-kneed boys who had to be prompted to eat and encouraged to defend themselves against other children.
To determine if there is a relationship between maternal prompting to eat, child compliance, and mother and child weight.
If prompted to eat something by a well-meaning but pushy person, simply keep repeating: "No thanks, I'm not in the mood".
On the digital side, restaurants are working on apps that include reward systems and location tracking that prompt customers to eat with them more frequently.
Navigenics and an organization affiliated with the Scripps Research Institute are now monitoring 4,800 people to see if the Navigenics test results prompt them to eat better, exercise more or get more medical checkups.
It has identified and patented several of the appetite-regulating genes which prompt people to eat too much or store too much fat in their tissues against a risk of famine that is never going to happen in a rich country.
