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What is Emotional Eating...and What's Causing it?

11 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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A short educational YouTube video by Dr. Tabatha Barber that defines emotional eating as using food for comfort or distraction from emotional distress rather than physical hunger. The presenter announces a plan to examine psychological, physiological (including cellular-level) and environmental causes of emotional eating.

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What is emotional eating? Essentially, it's this phenomenon where we turn to food for comfort, for stress relief or distraction from emotional distress, rather than eating for physical hunger or nutrition. So it's a complex behavior that can be influenced by a variety of factors. We're going to talk about all this, including psychological, physiological meaning, what's happening inside your cells and environmental things.