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Feeling Hangry?
DEAN DROBOT/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
REFUEL: Teens need to eat about 2,200 to 2,800 calories per day to have enough energy for daily activities.
It’s almost lunchtime, and you really need some food—you’re even starting to get grumpy. Some people describe this feeling as hangry—a combo of the words hungry and angry. But does hunger really affect our emotions? A team of scientists decided to investigate.
The researchers had 64 people track their emotions and hunger levels for three weeks. They found that participants who reported greater hunger were also likely to report greater feelings of anger and irritability. “When we’re hungry, we’re more likely to interpret information in a negative way,” says Viren Swami, a psychologist from Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom who worked on the study.
In 2018, a survey asked more than 107,500 people about their eating behaviors, including how often they felt angry or irritable while hungry. Their responses are shown in the bar graph below. About how many people reported feeling hangry at least some of the time?
SOURCE: 23ANDME