A person's appetite is influenced not only by environmental and emotional factors but also by diseases. Therefore, changes in appetite can reflect the body's health status.
1. If you have a strong appetite and get hungry easily, your body gradually becomes thinner, accompanied by thirst, excessive drinking, and frequent urination, this could be a sign of diabetes.
2. If you have a strong appetite recently but your weight is decreasing, along with symptoms like fatigue, sensitivity to heat, excessive sweating, and irritability, and if your eyeballs appear full and slightly protrude, you might have hyperthyroidism.
3. After eating a large amount of greasy food, if your appetite significantly decreases, accompanied by bloating, chest tightness, and paroxysmal abdominal pain, this could be "overeating" caused by indigestion. If your appetite is mostly normal but you experience pain in the upper right abdomen after eating greasy food, this might indicate a problem with the gallbladder. [China Cuisine]
4. If you experience sudden, severe upper abdominal pain after binge eating, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and fever, and the pain is not relieved by painkillers, this could be a sign of acute pancreatitis.
5. A sudden loss of appetite, aversion to food, especially nausea when seeing greasy food, general fatigue, soreness and weakness in the lower back, dark yellow urine like strong tea, and yellowing of the whites of the eyes could indicate viral hepatitis.
6. Poor appetite, aversion to food, abnormal bowel movements, and diarrhea after eating greasy food are signs of indigestion.
7. Abnormal appetite with bloating that worsens after meals and can be relieved by lying down, along with nausea and stomach pain, could be a sign of gastroptosis (stomach prolapse).
8. For people over 40, if you feel bloated in the abdomen after meals for no apparent reason, accompanied by fatigue, decreased appetite, and gradual weight loss, this could be a sign of esophageal or stomach cancer, and you should seek medical attention promptly.