Emotional Eating

One of the prerequisites of being healthy is to be nourished well-balanced and sufficient. Nutrition is a behaviour which must be conducted consciously to protect and promote health, and to increase quality of life. Meeting nutrition need is important as a biological requirement but also important for psychological aspects. When individuals get angry or feel themselves under pressure, they can start overeating. One of this kind of eating problems is called emotional eating which is used to describe the term of tend to overeating when negative feelings occur. The risk groups for emotional eating may include children and adolescents, obese individuals etc. Stress, depression, parent modelling, anger, boredom and happiness can effect emotional eating. In this review, literature about "emotional eating" was examined