Obesity is a circumstance in which the energy reserve in human body is increased to a point 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 plays a major role in Obesity. Emotions and environment stress impacts a person's overeating practice significantly.
Emotional status normally 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 tend to fall back to over eating.
In the psychological opinion, there are two chief standpoints regarding obesity. These are the externality hypothesis and the psychodynamic hypothesis.
It is viewed that overeating is considered to be a means of decreasing anxiety, relieving frustration and deprivation, sedating oneself, diminishing guilt and managing anxiety. Theorists Rakoff and Garetz describe overeating as a way 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 happening in response to emotional suffering, especially depression.
From these studies it is quite evident that when an obese individual undergoes stress, especially when the cause of the stress is ill-defined, he/she will respond by eating. The obese person may use food in an endeavor to recover a sense of self control when that sense is disturbed. Then overeating will lead the individual who is hurting from the stress to be obese which may then trigger certain other problems.
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