“Emotional eating is eating in response to negative emotions or stress to suppress or sooth such emotions like stress, anger, ...

This group is open to members of all identities and all body shapes. Students can contact Dr. Estrella Ramirez at [email protected] for more information. Eating disorder treatment can happen in a ...

Obesity affects both physical and mental health, leading to body-image issues and emotional eating. Dr. Nand Kumar of AIIMS ...

Experts explain why emotional eating isn’t necessarily a ‘bad ... affect key hormones like cortisol and insulin in the body. Those changes impact our hunger and desire for food-based ...

Emotional eating can be driven by our survival instincts. “Our bodies don’t recognise the difference between the stress of a lion chasing us and the stress of deadlines at work”, says ...

Individuals struggling with an eating disorder often have negative body image, poor self-esteem, or coexisting mental health concerns including anxiety and/or depression. Eating disorders affect both ...

Eating disorders come with both emotional and physical symptoms and ... Culturally mediated body-image concerns and personality traits like perfectionism and obsessiveness also play a large ...

Key risk factors include cognitive restraint (CR), emotional eating (EE), and uncontrolled eating (UE), linked to disordered eating, negative body image, obesity, and higher body mass index (BMI).

Those festivities can also include tons of indulgent foods, which can make it hard to control emotional eating — and Dr ... as emotions are how our body communicates with us,” Poon explained.