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Stress Eating And Its Implications On Health

By James Spann


People do not only eat to feel their stomach. Recent nutrition research has shown that emotional feeding is a big challenge that most people have to deal with today. Stress eating refers to taking food to fill negative emotions. Some of these feelings include sadness, loneliness, boredom and anger. The daily activities such as employment can trigger negative feelings that result to emotional eating.

People can eat for different reasons. It is unfortunate that some people seek comfort in food whenever they are going through difficult situations. Taking food because you are going through stressful situations does not at all solve problems. After one has eaten they feel worse than before because they have added unnecessary calories.

Taking food as a reward, to celebrate or using food as a pick up once in a while is not bad. However, when one start taking food with an objective of coping emotionally with an issue, when you find that every time things are not fine you are opening the refrigerator know that you are eating due to stress. People can also turn to food when they are lonely, exhausted, angry or bored.

Taking food to seek emotional relief is wrong and can never work for anyone. One may enjoy the food but the situation that caused the negative feelings will remain. One feels bad that they cannot deal with their feelings, overpowered by their feeding habits and helpless about the weight gain.

Stress has been proved to be a major challenge in weight loss. It is vital that people know proper ways of dealing with their problems. Most times when people do not know how to deal with their difficult situations they turn to overeating. Taking food recklessly interferes with efforts to maintain or cut down their weight.

While research on nutrition seems to be developing each day, it is clear that many people are finding it difficult to maintain a healthy diet and keep fit. This is a challenge because even if most people know the kind of food they should take, there are many other factors that affect the type and amount they consume.

People that have not discovered ways to manage their emotions in ways that do not involve food find themselves changing their consumption habits often. Putting one on diet with a view of reducing weight may fail because it only offers logical advice assuming the main problem preventing one from eating right is lack of knowledge which is not true. Nutritional knowledge may not work when one is hijacked with emotions or when a person lacks personal conscious control on food.

There are several strategies one can employ to avoid taking food out of emotional stress. Some of these include setting at least thirty minutes for relaxation every day, physical excises and most importantly connect with people.




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