Emotional eating, turning to food for comfort, stress relief, or distraction rather than to satisfy physical hunger—affects millions of people and often undermines otherwise successful health ...

Take a second to think: do you find yourself reaching for snacks the moment you feel stressed or overwhelmed? When we start using food to cope with our problems, we enter a cycle that pits the simple ...

Craving chips when life feels chaotic? Here's what your brain is really doing and why it's not about a lack of willpower or control. It’s normal for everyone to have days where life feels uncertain, ...

Financial hardship, reduced physical activity, increased leisure screen time, depressive and anxiety symptoms, and emotional eating were linked to an increase in body mass index (BMI) over a 4-year ...

Even with the best intentions, your patients on a weight-loss journey could be affected by life events that manifest in different emotions, including grief. If your patients are expressing feelings ...

Have you ever experienced moments when stress, boredom or even loneliness leads you to reach for comfort food even when you’re not actually hungry? Emotional eating is eating to escape, numb, change ...

While GLP-1 drugs can alter the chemistry of hunger in powerful ways, they don’t necessarily help with the emotional and psychological factors often found at the root of eating disorders. There is ...