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Emotional obesity
There is an Atlanta medical practice that helps weight loss patients deal with the complex chemistry behind nervous eating. It is a natural reaction that we tend to feel better after having a slice of cake or a bag of chocolates. In fact, some of the most common coping foods are high in salt, fat, and sugar. Scientific studies reveal that these foods are addictive. These foods release opioids in the brain, which act like morphine to relieve stress and pain. Food is legal and readily available, but we literally become food addicts, eating even when we are not hungry.It does not help that eating to alleviate stress is encouraged by family, friends, co-workers, and the media. Emotional eating is firmly established as a major factor in the ever-growing obesity rate in this country. Emotional eating is not imaginary. We eat to feel better because we are genuinely depressed, anxious, in pain, or upset.
Learning the necessary skills to tackle life’s challenges
With that dependency upon pleasure chemistry through food as a way to cope with problems, we are never forced to find real ways to deal with our real problems. We face an arrested development where food becomes our friend. Like any other chemical dependency, the more you use food as a coping mechanism, the less you believe you can handle life without it.
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