If you can cancel a child’s hunger during those first three years - from conception to toddlerdom -you create possibilities that stretch decades into the future. If not, the consequences can last for generations.

From childhood onwards, our idea of fullness is heavily influenced by how much food we are offered.

Part of eating well is making friends with hunger.

It’s easy to confuse hunger with other emotional states.

We eat so often and so much because we have more or less lost touch with the signals our body is sending us about hunger.

The loss of hunger regulation after the age of four is a phenomenon that transcends cultures and continents.

Hunger is always a kind of emptiness - an absence of nourishment - but what it will take to replenish it is far from obvious.

Hunger - this mechanism that we suppose to be so basic - turns out to be one of the more intricate bodily impulses.

One of the reasons hunger is so hard to pin down is that it is a negative concept, an absence.