Your stomach growls and everything gets on your nerves. Your boss is an idiot and your wife is annoying. But then you get something to eat and the world is beautiful again.
An empty stomach makes many people angry and irritable, a phenomenon known as ‘hangry’.
In a study 64 Europeans tracked their hunger and emotional well-being five times a day for three weeks. And the results were crystal clear: people have a shorter fuse when hunger has struck.
The scientists adjusted for potentially influential factors such as gender, age, diet, BMI and temperament, but the link between hunger and negative emotions was still clear.
The study shows that the feeling of hunger is strongly associated with major mood swings.
