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Body weight
Body weight is simply the weight of any animal, including humans. The term is usually encountered in connection with:
- food and feeding behaviour
- normal and abnormal growth and development
- the physiological and hormonal control of ingestion and digestion
- foraging for food in non-human animals
- hunger and other motivations to eat
- problems in regulating body weight, often resulting in obesity
- eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
- effects of disease
See also
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