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She stopped hoarding food at her last foster home, so I don't want to encourage it to start again. It's mainly at the table or any place there's food. She just eats and eats and eats and then asks for more. Oh, I guess I didn't say - she's 4 1/2 years old.

Someone gave me some advice to tell her that she could have more, but that that would be it and that we would be eating again in few hours for lunch or a snack or whatever. I feel insecure about what the best thing to do would be.

Can children who have gone without food a lot in their younger lives get reconnected with their sense of hunger/fullness? How does that happen? Is the issue just emotional or is there a biological component?