Stress plays a major role in Obesity. Emotions and environment stress affects a person’s overeating pattern significantly.
Emotional condition generally plays upon the mind of the consumer of the food while he/she is eating something. When individuals are not in an emotionaly stable position due to some stress, they tend to fall back to over eating.
In the psychological thought, there are two main standpoints on obesity. These are the outwardness hypothesis and the psychodynamic hypothesis.
It is viewed that overeating is considered to be a means of diminishing anxiety, alleviating frustration and deprivation, sedating oneself, diminishing guilt and managing anxiety. Theorists Rakoff and Garetz depict overeating as a way of dealing with emotions like anxiety, anger, desperation, and depression, all of which are related to stress.
Kornhaber characterizes the obese persons overeating practice as happening in response to emotional suffering, particularly depression.
From these analyses it is quite discernible that when an obese individual undergoes stress, particularly when the cause of the stress is unclear, he/she will respond by eating. The obese individual may use food in an endeavor to recover a sense of self control when that sense is disturbed. Then overeating will lead the individual who is suffering from the stress to be obese which may then trigger certain other problems.
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