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The Science Behind Feeling Full

Millions of years have honed the mechanisms that compel us to eat. Unfortunately, when it’s time to stop eating, evolution has given us far fewer tools.

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It is once again time to celebrate a uniquely American holiday in uniquely American fashion: by ingesting record-breaking, dining room table-straining quantities of glorious food.

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