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Emotional Eating During
Covid-19
What is Emotional Eating? “Emotional eating” is not a clinical term, but a term we use to describe the phenomenon of eating in response to an emotional state, rather than hunger.” Obviously, we as humans intake food for a wide variety of reasons, to kill hunger, stay active and healthy and also to comfort ourselves during stressful or emotional times – and this is completely normal. However, emotional eating is something people don’t tend to take lightly. If we look at it from society’s point, it is hard to accept that someone is eating in response to anything other than hunger. As long as eating is not your only coping mechanism, you’re safe. Emotional eating is much more common than we think. In fact people who lose their appetite are far more rare than those who rely on food to cope with whatever they’re dealing with. MAY 3-9 2020
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