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eating

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Also known as food intake, consuming, consumption, to eat, eat, feeding

thumb|288px|Amandines de Provence, poster by Leonetto Cappiello, 1900, which shows a woman eating almond cookies

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Subclass of
activity
Location
workplace
Has use
nutrition
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Commons category
Eating
uses
human digestive system
opposite of
starvation
different from
grazing
has effect
satiety
has cause
hunger
hashtag
eating
topic has template
Template:Feeding
exact match
turkic.elegantlexicon.com/turkforms.php?form=eateat
NCI Thesaurus ID
C86069
class of object(s) of occurrence
food
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15 sections
Contents
  • Eating practices among humans
  • Development in humans
  • Eating positions
  • Compulsive overeating
  • Hunger and satiety
  • Initiation
  • Termination
  • Role of the brain
  • Disorders
  • Other animals
  • Birds
  • Mammals
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

thumb|288px|Amandines de Provence, poster by Leonetto Cappiello, 1900, which shows a woman eating almond cookies

Eating (also known as consuming) is the ingestion of food. In biology, this is typically done to provide a heterotrophic organism with energy and nutrients and to allow for growth. Animals and other heterotrophs must eat in order to survive – carnivores eat other animals, herbivores eat plants, omnivores consume a mixture of both plant and animal matter, and detritivores eat detritus. Fungi digest organic matter outside their bodies as opposed to animals that digest their food inside their bodies.

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