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EMOTIONAL

EATING

By // Dr. Dena Cabrera

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• {DID YOU KNOW?}^ People with high EQs master their emotions because they understand them and use an extensive vocabulary of feelings to do so.

D

oes your child overeat in response to a hard day, out of

boredom, or maybe when there’s just good food around?

Emotional eating is defined as eating food when we’re

not hungry or eating beyond fullness driven by positive

and negative emotions.

We’ve all had the tendency to emotionally eat. Whether it’s

a holiday, birthday, wedding or celebration, food is a big part of

our daily lives and more so during special occasions. Thus, we eat

for numerous reasons and often, eating extends beyond what our

hunger and fullness cues signal to us.

Emotional eating can be problematic if it becomes a pattern

and if it’s the main (or only) way of dealing with emotions.

Emotional eating is strongly associated with anxiety, depression,

loneliness and boredom, and can lead to feelings of guilt, remorse, disgust

or shame. Or worse, it can lead to an eating disorder including binge