Which word is used for an unnatural craving for unsuitable food, often exhibited during pregnancy?
"in pregnancy include dietary modification, local treatments, bowel stimulants or depressants, or phlebotonics (to strengthen capillaries and improve microcirculation). Treatment with oral hydroxyethylrutosides may help improve first and second degree hemorrhoids, but more information on safety in pregnancy is needed. Other treatments and approaches have not been evaluated in pregnant women. Pica is a craving for nonedible items such as dirt or clay. It is caused by iron deficiency which is normal during pregnancy and can be overcome with iron in prenatal vitamins or, if severe, parenteral iron Caused by rapid expansion of the uterus and stretching of ligaments such"
"Lihi In Philippine folk culture, lihí is a condition of pregnancy food craving in which a notable characteristic is that pregnant women usually desire food such as sour, unripe mango with bagoong. While it is a cultural concept restricted among the Filipinos, analogous cultural phenomena of pregnancy food cravings have been observed in various cultures. It is still debatable as to whether ""lihí"" can be classified and established as either a biological or psychological condition or a purely social and cultural one. ""Lihí"" also broadly encompasses a folk belief that whatever a woman had craved during pregnancy will imprint characteristics"
"of pregnancy and in the majority were not present post partum. Furthermore, 26% of these participants also claimed that they also experienced an increased sensitivity to foods that were bitter and a decreased sensitivity to salt. These findings suggest that pregnant females experience distorted smell and taste perception during pregnancy. It has also been found that 75% of women alter their diets during pregnancy. Further research is being conducted to determine the mechanism behind food cravings during pregnancy. Phantosmia has been found to co-exist in patients with other disorders such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, alcoholic psychosis, and depression. It has also"
"Concupiscence Concupiscence (from Late Latin noun ""concupiscentia"", from the Latin verb ""concupiscere"", from ""con-"", ""with"", here an intensifier, + ""cupi(d)-"", ""desiring"" + ""-escere"", a verb-forming suffix denoting beginning of a process or state) is an ardent, usually sensual, longing. In Catholic theology, concupiscence is seen as a desire of the lower appetite contrary to reason. There are nine occurrences of ""concupiscence"" in the Douay-Rheims Bible and three occurrences in the ""King James Bible"". It is also one of the English translations of the Koine Greek epithumia (ἐπιθυμία), which occurs 38 times in the New Testament. In Judaism, there is an"
"Pregnancy fetishism Pregnancy fetishism (also known as maiesiophilia or maieusophoria) is a context where pregnancy is seen by individuals or cultures as an erotic phenomenon. It may involve sexual attraction to women who are pregnant or appear pregnant, attraction to lactation, or attraction to particular stages of pregnancy such as impregnation or childbirth. There are no particular or preferred elements within maiesiophilia that are common to all maiesiophiliacs. Some may pursue fantasies that are concerned with the circumstances in which a subject may give birth, or to the conditions to which the pregnant subject may find themselves acting upon, such"
"pregnancy cravings differ in their nutritional make-up from culture to culture, it can be inferred that there is no set of nutritional needs that these cravings are filling. Instead, it may be that strange cravings help pregnant women signal that they are pregnant and recruit help from the people around them. Some decent evidence for this is the fact that women often crave rare, hard to obtain foods and reject common-place, everyday ones. Providing pregnant relations with food may have been common among the human ancestor Homo Erectus, which provides a possible explanation for the evolution of this behavior. Different"
"is opposed to toil. Accordingly, just as it belongs to effeminacy to be unable to endure toilsome things, so too it belongs thereto to desire play or any other relaxation inordinately. Latin writers adopted the Greek word, Latinized as ""malacia"", to mean, literally or figuratively, ""a calm at sea"", ""dead calm"", or to mean ""a total want of appetite"", ""nausea"". In English, the word ""malacia"" is used in medicine to mean an abnormal craving for certain kinds of food, and in pathology to mean an abnormal softening of organs or tissues of the human body. In modern Greek, the word"
"the preparation of certain foods during menses. Pregnant women are encouraged to satisfy their cravings for specific foods, out of fear that their unborn child will bear a representational birth mark (Maltese: ""xewqa"", literally ""desire"" or ""craving""). Maltese and Sicilian women also share certain traditions that are believed to predict the sex of an unborn child, such as the cycle of the moon on the anticipated date of birth, whether the baby is carried ""high"" or ""low"" during pregnancy, and the movement of a wedding ring, dangled on a string above the abdomen (sideways denoting a girl, back and forth"
"uses an elongated proboscis-like tongue to reach the fetus or its placenta within the womb. This habit, among other unmentionable things that this spirit does, is believed to be the cause of many diseases affecting mainly rural women during their pregnancy. Since pregnancy is considered to be a ""hot"" condition in Thai medicine, foods to maintain warmth are preferred, such as ginger tea, coconut milk, young coconut meat, salty foods, tamarind, fish, garlic, onion, and warm liquids. Those who consume pak plang, a slippery vine-like green vegetable, will have an easy birth, since it will make the baby’s body slippery."
"Wannarexia Wannarexia, or anorexic yearning, is a label applied to someone who claims to have anorexia nervosa, or wishes they did, but does not. These individuals are also called wannarexic, “wanna-be ana” or ""anorexic wannabe"". The neologism ""wannarexia"" is a portmanteau of the latter two terms. It may be used as a pejorative term. Wannarexia is a cultural phenomenon and has no diagnostic criteria, although some wannarexics may be instead diagnosed with eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS). Wannarexia is more commonly, but not always, found in teenage girls who want to be trendy, and is likely caused by a"
"Anorexia mirabilis Anorexia mirabilis, also known as holy anorexia or inedia prodigiosa, is an eating disorder, similar to that of anorexia nervosa, that was common in the Middle Ages in Europe, largely affecting Catholic nuns. Sufferers claim they're motivated to restrict their food intake in order to achieve a holier state and would often engage in rituals designed to cause themselves pain and suffering. Anorexia mirabilis is primarily characterized by the refusal to eat, resulting in starvation, malnutrition, and oftentimes, death, but differs from anorexia nervosa in that the disease is associated with religion as opposed to personal aesthetics. Though"
"Vorarephilia Vorarephilia (often shortened to vore) is a paraphilia characterized by the erotic desire to be consumed by, or sometimes to personally consume, another person or creature, or an erotic attraction to the process of eating in general practice. Since vorarephilic fantasies cannot usually be acted out in reality, they are often expressed in stories or drawings shared on the Internet. The word ""vorarephilia"" is derived from the Latin ""vorare"" (to ""swallow"" or ""devour""), and Ancient Greek φιλία (""philía"", ""love""). The fantasy usually involves the victim being swallowed whole, though occasionally the victims are chewed up, and digestion may or"
"example, contains the neurotransmitter phenylethylamine, which is important for the regulation of the body’s release of endorphins. Endorphins are released following a stressor and result in a sense of relaxation. Exercise and sleep are two alternative ways to help facilitate the release of endorphins. Women will often experience cravings for unusual foods during pregnancy. The reason that these cravings occur is not definitively known. It's been theorized that these cravings might be in order to replace nutrients lost during morning sickness. However, there is substantial evidence that pregnancy cravings serve a social function, rather than a nutritional one. Because popular"
"Gluttony Gluttony (, derived from the Latin ""gluttire"" meaning ""to gulp down or swallow"") means over-indulgence and over-consumption of food, drink, or wealth items. In Christianity, it is considered a sin if the excessive desire for food causes it to be withheld from the needy. Some Christian denominations consider gluttony one of the seven deadly sins. In Deut 21:20 and Proverbs 23:21, it is זלל. The Gesenius Entry (lower left word) has indications of ""squandering"" and ""profligacy"" (waste). In Matthew 11:19 and Luke 7:34, it is φαγος ("""" transliterated character for character), The LSJ Entry is tiny, and only refers"
"cultures have different popular pregnancy cravings. One of the treatments for morning sickness consists of accommodating food cravings and aversions. Depending from the historical period and the culture there are different traditions regarding pregnancy cravings. Some examples are: Chocolate is seen as a sweet that is desired more by women than by men. Studies conducted in the UK and USA and Canada have concluded that women indeed crave chocolate more than men. Also this chocolate craving seems to occur more perimenstrually. However a biological explanation has not been scientifically proven. It seems to have a cultural cause instead of a"
"Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP), also known as obstetric cholestasis, cholestasis of pregnancy, jaundice of pregnancy, and prurigo gravidarum, is a medical condition in which cholestasis occurs during pregnancy. It typically presents with troublesome itching and can lead to complications for both mother and fetus. Pruritus (itching) has long been considered to be a common symptom of pregnancy. The vast majority of times, itching is a minor annoyance caused by changes to the skin, especially that of the abdomen. However, there are instances when itching is a symptom of ICP. This is usually most intense on"
"biological cause. Spanish women experience perimenstrual chocolate craving far less than American women (24% versus 60%) although they should not differ much physiologically. Spanish females crave chocolate more after dinner. The times males crave chocolate also differs between both cultures but was the same as the craving for chocolate of females in their culture (except perimenstrual). For treating small chocolate cravings, the smell of jasmine has been known to work. Food craving A food craving (also called selective hunger) is an intense desire to consume a specific food, and is different from normal hunger. It may or may not be"
"Hedonic hunger Hedonic hunger or hedonic hyperphagia is ""the drive to eat to obtain pleasure in the absence of an energy deficit."" Particular foods may have a high ""hedonic rating"" or individuals may have increased susceptibility to environmental food cues. Weight loss programs may aim to control or to compensate for hedonic hunger. Therapeutic interventions may influence hedonic eating behavior. Although hunger may arise from energy or nutrient deficits, as would be expected in the set-point theories of hunger and eating, hunger may arise more commonly from anticipated pleasure of eating, consistent with the positive-incentive perspective. Gramlich distinguished the overeating"
"in handgrip strength when placed in a threatening, sexually coercive scenario. Susceptibility to signs of a male’s coerciveness is also identified to be better in fertile women. One psychological adaptation found solely in women is pregnancy sickness. This is an adaptation resulting from natural selection for the purpose of avoiding toxic-containing foods during pregnancy. Margaret Profet, an evolutionary biologist, provides evidence for this adaptation in a literature review on pregnancy sickness. Particular plant foods, whilst unharmful to adults, can contain toxins (e.g. teratogens) that are dangerous for developing embryos and can potentially cause birth defects such as facial asymmetry. Evidence"
"article in the magazine ""Yoga Journal"", the American physician Steven Bratman coined the term ""orthorexia nervosa"" from the Greek ορθο- (""ortho"", ""right"" or ""correct""), and όρεξις (""orexis"", ""appetite""), literally meaning 'correct appetite', but in practice meaning 'correct diet'. The term is modeled on ""anorexia"", literally meaning ""without appetite"", as used in the definition of the condition anorexia nervosa. (In both terms, ""nervosa"" indicates an unhealthy psychological state.) Bratman described orthorexia as an unhealthy fixation with what the individual considers to be healthy eating. Beliefs about what constitutes healthy eating commonly originate in one or another dietary theory such as raw"
"Greed Greed, or avarice, is an inordinate or insatiable longing for material gain, be it food, money, status, or power. As a secular psychological concept, greed is an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs. The degree of inordinance is related to the inability to control the reformulation of ""wants"" once desired ""needs"" are eliminated. Erich Fromm described greed as ""a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction."" It is typically used to criticize those who seek excessive material wealth, although it may apply to the"
"junk food or something unhealthy. Another aspect of emotional eating is mindless eating, which is when someone eats without paying attention to or enjoying what they are consuming. An example is eating an entire container of ice cream while watching television, having not intended to eat that much. This behavior usually happens with emotional eating, not eating through hunger. Emotional hunger does not originate from the stomach, such as with a rumbling or growling stomach, but tends to start when a person thinks about a craving or wants something specific to eat. Emotional responses are also different. Giving in to"
"for recovery, a patient may eat non-kosher foods. In the Babylonian Talmud, Chapter 82a of Tractate Yoma mentions pregnancy cravings for non-kosher food (the passage discusses a pregnant woman who craves pork on Yom Kippur) as the paradigmatic example of a presumed life-threatening situation where a person is allowed to eat non-kosher food (and is permitted to eat it on Yom Kippur). On Yom Kippur, the fast preferably may only be broken if one is advised by a physician not to fast, and then consults a rabbi regarding the physician's advice. The general practice is to eat only as much"
"that the messages delivered by ""fitspiration"" websites are sometimes identical to the ""thinspiration"" or pro-anorexia types. This is evident through ""language inducing guilt about weight or the body, and promoted dieting"". Although the wellness trend may not lead to eating disorders, the marketing of restrictive diets to young women as a form of self care could potentially cause ""increasingly disordered eating"", whereby they became more concerned with ingredients and limited certain types of food. This illness is better known as Orthorexia; which is the obsession with the right and wrong types of food. As an attempt to tackle such issues,"
"and is a cause of phocomelia in neonates. Hyperemesis gravidarum is from the Greek ""hyper-"", meaning excessive, and ""emesis"", meaning vomiting, and the Latin ""gravidarum"", the feminine genitive plural form of an adjective, here used as a noun, meaning ""pregnant [woman]"". Therefore, hyperemesis gravidarum means ""excessive vomiting of pregnant women"". Author Charlotte Brontë is often thought to have suffered from hyperemesis gravidarum. She died in 1855 while four months pregnant, having been afflicted by intractable nausea and vomiting throughout her pregnancy, and was unable to tolerate food or even water. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge was hospitalised due to hyperemesis gravidarum"
"physical (infectious, autoimmune or malignant disease) or psychological (stress, mental disorders) factors. Likewise, hyperphagia (excessive eating) may be a result of hormonal imbalances, mental disorders (e.g., depression) and others. Dyspepsia, also known as indigestion, can also affect appetite as one of its symptoms is feeling ""overly full"" soon after beginning a meal. Taste and smell (""dysgeusia"", bad taste) or the lack thereof may also effect appetite. Abnormal appetite may also be linked to genetics on a chromosomal scale, shown by the 1950s discovery of Prader–Willi syndrome, a type of obesity caused by chromosome alterations. Additionally, anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa"
"cravings and eating in moderation. Irritability Irritability is the excitatory ability that living organisms have to respond to changes in their environment. The term is used for both the physiological reaction to stimuli and for the pathological, abnormal or excessive sensitivity to stimuli. It is usually used to refer to anger or frustration. In individuals with autism disorder for example, they tend to be marked by aggression patterns. Irritability can be a growing response to the objective stimuli of hunger or thirst in animals or humans which then reaches some level of awareness of that need. Irritability may be demonstrated"
"order to satisfy the palate. 2. Seeking delicacies and better ""quality"" of food to gratify the ""vile sense of taste."" 3. Seeking to ""stimulate"" the palate with overly or elaborately prepared food (e.g. with luxurious sauces and seasonings). 4. Exceeding the necessary ""quantity"" of food. 5. Taking food with too much ""eagerness"", even when eating the proper amount, and even if the food is not luxurious. The fifth way is worse than all others, said St. Gregory, because it shows attachment to pleasure most clearly. To recapitulate, St Gregory the Great said that one may succumb to the sin of"
"up to childbirth, and avoiding the preparation of certain foods during menses. Pregnant women are encouraged to satisfy their cravings for specific foods, out of fear that their unborn child will bear a representational birth mark (Maltese: ""xewqa"", literally ""desire"" or ""craving""). Maltese and Sicilian women also share certain traditions that are believed to predict the sex of an unborn child, such as the cycle of the moon on the anticipated date of birth, whether the baby is carried ""high"" or ""low"" during pregnancy, and the movement of a wedding ring, dangled on a string above the abdomen (sideways denoting"
"abstinence from food by purging as reparation for her sins. Catherine died from starvation at age thirty-three. While the psychological disorder ""bulimia nervosa"" is relatively new, the word ""bulimia,"" signifying overeating, has been present for centuries. The Babylon Talmud referenced practices of ""bulimia,"" yet scholars believe that this simply referred to overeating without the purging or the psychological implications bulimia nervosa. In fact, a search for evidence of bulimia nervosa from the 17th to late 19th century revealed that only a quarter of the overeating cases they examined actually vomited after the binges. There was no evidence of deliberate vomiting"
"ideas about certain foods being related to coldness or heat. Sweets, for example, are considered a cold food that should be avoided in pregnancy as the womb is meant to be warm. Also promoted is the idea that a pregnant woman should eat foods native to Japan. The concept ""moto ni modoru"" in this context suggests that in regard to food, one should go back to the origin when pregnant. In other words, Japanese babies are made of Japanese food which comes from Japanese soil. Traditional thoughts about proper food to eat in pregnancy relate to the idea that women"
"chronic food shortage. If the offspring actually develops in an environment rich in food it may be more prone to metabolic disorders, such as obesity and type II diabetes. The following tests have been promoted as supposedly diagnosing placental insufficiency, but all have been unsuccessful at predicting stillbirth due to placental insufficiency: Placental insufficiency Placental insufficiency or utero-placental insufficiency is the failure of the placenta to deliver sufficient nutrients to the fetus during pregnancy, and is often a result of insufficient blood flow to the placenta. The term is also sometimes used to designate late decelerations of fetal heart rate"
"are more commonly found in females than males – thus hinting at a possibility of a linkage to the X-chromosome. Dysregulation of appetite lies at the root of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. Anorexia nervosa is a mental disorder characterized as severe dietary restriction and intense fear of weight gain. Furthermore, persons with anorexia nervosa may exercise ritualistically. Individuals who have anorexia have high levels of ghrelin, a hormone that stimulates appetite, so the body is trying to cause hunger, but the urge to eat is being suppressed by the person. Binge eating disorder (commonly referred to"