Wednesday, May 21, 2014

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.

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.

As new research on nutrition comes up every day, it is evident that one of the main challenges that people are dealing with today is their weight. This is common because despite the fact that many know the type of food they should take, activities they engage in daily affect the type of food they consume.

There is a connection between ability to solve problems and consumption habits. When people are not to solve their issues they may turn to food which leads to weight gain. Putting one on diet at times may not be successful because the assumption is lack of nutrition knowledge is the only cause of weight issues which is not true. Nutritional knowledge alone may not work especially when one is going through emotional challenges.

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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