Which of the Following Best Describes Sensory-Specific Satiety

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes sensory-specific satiety?

• A) When people experience sensory-specific satiety, they tend to go on a food binge and eat vast amounts of high-calorie, easy-to-swallow foods.
• B) Simply chewing, tasting, or smelling an appealing food causes the release of the hormone leptin, greatly increasing the desire to eat.
• C) As a particular food is consumed, the desire to continue eating that food decreases.
• D) As sweet, salty, or fatty foods are consumed, there is a surge in brain levels of ghrelin.

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