Psychological correlates of emotional eating
Keywords:
Eaten, emotions, psychological correlatesAbstract
We chose this paper in order to better understand what are the factors responsible for the emergence of emotional eating and how they interact in the daily life of the individual. When we talk about emotional eating we do not only refer to a problem of nutrition, but to what is behind it, namely the reflection of a problem of love, soul, relationship and mirrors the way a person relates to his own body and self. Our relationship with food shows us how we relate to the child we once were and the love that was or was not offered to us by our parents, but which we have always wanted so fervently. The increase in the obesity rate is currently a cause for concern for nutritionists, which has led to the inclusion in schools of information courses on the importance of a healthy eating style and the presence of sports activities in the daily routine. Many countries in the world are known as nations whose population has a high level of obese citizens (United States, Great Britain, Germany, etc.). The satisfaction felt by the child in the first year of life when sitting comfortably in the mother's breast is linked over the years with the need to eat. There are people who value and associate this state with a feeling of comfort and a state of well-being and when they are happy they eat to prolong this state. But there is also the reverse of the medal when there is a state of anxiety and irritability before the meal and the agitation increases constantly until the person has managed to eat. This condition is associated with a certain frustration related to the time of the meal, and some people tend to eat when they are anxious, angry or frustrated.