0 Nutritional Knowledge, Stress Eating And Weight

By James Spann


There are many reasons why people eat part from the filling their stomach. Nutrition research has it that people can take food with a view to cope with negative emotions. Stress eating is a big challenge that many people have to deal with today. It refers to feeding with the aim that one will feel better emotionally. Some of these emotions include loneliness, anger, sadness and boredom. These feelings are often evoked by daily activities people engage in such as employment.

Research has shown that people do not always turn to food because they are hunger. Some people turn to food as a source of comfort, reward or even to seek emotional relief. Feeding because one is done stress does not solve problems in fact it makes one feel worse. After one has taken the food the stressing issues remain and one feels guilty for doing it.

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.

Turning to food cannot fill emotional hunger. Overeating may feel good but unfortunately it does not solve anything because the problem that triggered the eating remains. Quite often the end results are worse. One feels bad than before because they unknowingly added unnecessary calories. People often will feel helpless has have messed themselves more. They blame themselves for lacking will power to control their situation.

There is a relationship between trauma and weight loss. It is essential that people learn good ways of handling their problems. Immediately one fails to seek healthy ways of dealing their emotions thy turn to overeating. It is sad that it frustrates one weight loss efforts making it harder and harder to control their weight or reduce. The end result is that one feels powerless over their emotions and food.

Current nutrition research has exposed that one of the challenges that people are facing today is maintain their weight. People are aware of what they should eat to live healthy but unfortunately, daily situations affect their consumption patterns. Fatigue, financial constraints, unemployment, and relationship conflicts often cause stress which may affect what one eats.

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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