Stress and Obesity

by Dave Owen on November 14, 2009

in weight loss

Obesity is a condition in which the energy reserve in human body is raised to a point where it can create certain health conditions or an increased death rate. Obesity is being viewed as an increasing public health threat. Obesity is being considered to predispose different diseases like sleep apnea, cardiovascular diseases, etc.

Stress plays a major role in Obesity. Emotions and environment stress affects a person’s overeating practice significantly.

Emotional status generally effects the mind of the consumer of the food while he/she is eating something. When individuals are not in an emotionaly stable position due to some stress, they may be inclined to fall back to over eating.

In the psychological opinion, there are two chief points of view regarding obesity. These are the externality hypothesis and the psychodynamic hypothesis.

It is viewed that overeating is believed to be a means of diminishing anxiety, relieving frustration and deprivation, sedating oneself, reducing guilt and handling anxiety. Theorists Rakoff and Garetz describe overeating as a means of dealing with emotions like anxiety, anger, despair, and depression, all of which are associated with stress.

Kornhaber characterizes the obese persons overeating pattern as happening in response to emotional suffering, especially depression.

From these analyses it is quite discernible that when an obese individual undergoes stress, particularly when the cause of the stress is unclear, he/she will react by eating. The obese person may use food in an endeavor to regain a sense of self control when that sense is disturbed. Then overeating will lead the person who is suffering from the stress to be obese which may then trigger certain other problems.

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