During the pandemic, about 80% of people changed their eating habits under stress, with roughly 45% eating more. The video asks whether diet books help emotional eating, or if managing stress itself is the real answer.
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We used to only eat to fill a hole in our stomachs. Now we eat to fill a hole in our hearts, right? When we're lonely, we eat. When we're bored, we eat. When we're stressed, we eat. When we feel disconnected, we eat. And that's okay. But you've got to understand that, right, a lot of the time this is going on in the background. We don't take time to understand that. And we keep looking for the latest diet book to give us the solution. Look, the times in which we're living, Mark, I guess, are, you know, the perfect way to describe this. So, you know, in the pandemic, with these lockdowns, with these restrictions, many people have put on weights. I don't know about the American media, but the UK media have these terms like the corona stone, the quarantine. 15. Right. So the people recognize that they're COVID 19.
Yeah, I didn't know that one, but, yeah. And so a lot of people, especially when they're seeing the evidence for what that does to their risk of complications, they're getting quite stressed and they're looking for a new diet book to help them get on top of things. But what if that's the wrong place to look for some people? So the research suggests that about 80% of us change our eating behavior in response to stress. 45% of us or so will eat more, 35% or so will eat less. So that's almost half the population are eating more in response to stress. Right. So if that's you or me, if we're eating more in response to stress and we're putting on weight, do we need a new diet book or do we need better strategies managing stress?
