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Comfort Food vs Stress Eating Food | What's the Difference?

2 Feb 2024 · 0 min

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A short YouTube video by Dr. Tabatha Barber distinguishing comfort food from stress eating. The speaker contrasts comfort food as family-tradition-based, memory-anchoring foods with stress eating driven by physiological responses (low blood sugar, altered salts, elevated aldosterone) that produce specific cravings.

Comfort food is something that is anchoring you or creating a core memory of joy. So comfort foods are the foods that come from our family traditions. Stress eating is. We are eating to medicate ourselves. Because our blood sugar is dropped, our salts are off right where aldosterone is also high. So we're wasting salts of those that crave potato chips. Or you're craving sweet and salty. Whatever it is, there's no judgment.