: Why do people lose their appetite while having a fever? Fevers raise the body's temperature, therefore requiring more energy. Why, then, is a loss of appetite a characteristic of fevers if food would provide the essential

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Why do people lose their appetite while having a fever?
Fevers raise the body's temperature, therefore requiring more energy.

Why, then, is a loss of appetite a characteristic of fevers if food would provide the essential extra energy used to raise the body's temperature?

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