0 the state of being completely satisfied, especially with food or pleasure, so that you could not have any more --
Later on animal studies showed that serotonin receptor agonists might act as a mediator of satiety.
Finally, emerging data suggest that dried fruit promotes satiety by affecting the levels of hormones such as leptin that regulate appetite.
Secondly, that we are so plentiful in our production that we have already reached the point of a false satiety.
One rich man or one rich family can consume only so much before reaching satiety.
It is claimed to reduce intake by producing feelings of satiety but there is little evidence to support this claim.
My contention can be simplified, perhaps, to satiety, by illustrations.
One of the various realizers of satiety, or of "contra-realizers" of hunger, it seems, is hormonal, particularly but not exclusively via peptides occurring in the gut.
Hunger and satiety modify the responses of olfactory and visual neurons in the primate orbitofrontal cortex.
