This is a really good analogy, in that if you eat a bunch of high-fat high-carb foods, you'll feel full, but not necessarily satisfied, and you won't have good health.

Failing to attend to our metabolic needs might sate hunger transiently, but may be a poor decision.

Failing to attend to the background for why we have a need to feel meaning might sate existential crisis transiently, but may also be a poor decision.