Obesity is a condition in which the energy stockpile within human body is increased to a degree where it can cause certain health conditions or an increased death rate. Obesity is becoming viewed as an increasing public health threat. Obesity is being considered to predispose different diseases like sleep apnea, cardiovascular diseases, etc.
Stress is a major factor in Obesity. Emotions and environment stress impacts a person's overeating pattern significantly.
Emotional status normally plays upon the mind of the consumer of the food while he/she is eating something. When individuals are not in an emotionaly stable position as the result of some stress, they tend to fall back to over eating.
In the psychological thought, there are two chief standpoints on obesity. These are the externality hypothesis and the psychodynamic hypothesis.
It is viewed that overeating is considered to be a means of diminishing anxiety, alleviating frustration and deprivation, calming oneself, diminishing guilt and handling anxiety. Theorists Rakoff and Garetz depict overeating as a means of coping with emotions like anxiety, anger, despair, and depression, all of which are related to stress.
Kornhaber characterizes the obese individuals overeating pattern as occurring in response to emotional distress, especially depression.
From these analyses it is quite discernible that when an obese individual experiences stress, particularly when the cause of the stress is unclear, he/she will react by eating. The obese individual may use food in an attempt to recover a sense of self control when that sense is disturbed. Then overeating will lead the individual who is suffering from the stress to be obese which may then trigger certain other problems.
Stress is a major factor in Obesity. Emotions and environment stress impacts a person's overeating pattern significantly.
Emotional status normally plays upon the mind of the consumer of the food while he/she is eating something. When individuals are not in an emotionaly stable position as the result of some stress, they tend to fall back to over eating.
In the psychological thought, there are two chief standpoints on obesity. These are the externality hypothesis and the psychodynamic hypothesis.
It is viewed that overeating is considered to be a means of diminishing anxiety, alleviating frustration and deprivation, calming oneself, diminishing guilt and handling anxiety. Theorists Rakoff and Garetz depict overeating as a means of coping with emotions like anxiety, anger, despair, and depression, all of which are related to stress.
Kornhaber characterizes the obese individuals overeating pattern as occurring in response to emotional distress, especially depression.
From these analyses it is quite discernible that when an obese individual experiences stress, particularly when the cause of the stress is unclear, he/she will react by eating. The obese individual may use food in an attempt to recover a sense of self control when that sense is disturbed. Then overeating will lead the individual who is suffering from the stress to be obese which may then trigger certain other problems.
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