Why Do I Get Hangry? WILDFIT Founder on the Food-Mood Connection

It’s late afternoon. You’re in a meeting that’s dragging on, and lunch seems like a distant memory. Your stomach rumbles, and your focus starts to wane. And as time ticks by, a wave of irritability washes over you. 

Hanger. Has. Struck.

This fun, colloquial term that combines hungry and angry is often used as a joke. But did you know there’s actual science behind this food-mood connection?

Let’s take a look at hangry-ism and find the answers to that nagging question: “Why do I get hangr...