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Chapter IX: Hunger vs. Appetite.1803
Chapter IX: Hunger vs. Appetite.
As we said at the conclusion of the preceding chapter, Hunger and
Appetite are two entirely different attributes of the human body. Hunger
is the normal demand for food—Appetite the abnormal craving. Hunger is
like the rosy hue upon the cheek of the healthy child—Appetite is like the
rouged face of the woman of fashion. And yet most people use the terms as
if their meaning were identical. Let us see wherein lies the difference.
It is quite difficult to explain the respective sensations, or symptoms, of
Hunger and Appetite, to the average person who has attained the age of
maturity, for the majority of persons of that age have had their natural taste,
or hunger-instinct, perverted by Appetite to such an extent that they have
not experienced the sensation of genuine hunger for many years, and have
forgotten just what it felt like. And it is hard to describe a sensation unless
one can call up in the mind of his hearer the recollection of the same, or a
similar sensation, experienced at some time in the past. We can describe a
sound to the person of normal hearing by comparing it with something he
has heard—but imagine the difficulty of conveying an intelligent idea of a
sound to a man who was born “stone-deaf;” or of describing a color to a
man born blind; or of giving an intelligent description of an odor to one
born without the sense of smell.