Food can provide a sense of relief, but when it becomes your only source of comfort, it can have negative consequences.

When Sam Thomas, a writer, speaker and mental health campaigner, was 11 years old, he experienced homophobic bullying at school. To escape the bullies, he would hide in the bathroom and eat the food ...

AFTER years of “eating her feelings” Christina Togher tipped the scales at 22 stone. Struggling to do “everyday tasks” such ...

Emotional eating is the act of eating as a way to cope with feelings, provide emotional comfort or stress relief, not just to satisfy physical hunger. Emotional eating and other unhealthy eating ...

If food makes you feel energetic and happy, it’s good. If it makes you lethargic or uncomfortable, it’s not, says Dr Smitha Singh, clinical dietitian at Lucknow ...

Primary care providers are well positioned to address emotional eating because of their long-term relationships with patients, noted Jana DeSimone Wozniak, PhD and Hsiang Huang, MD, MPH, of Harvard ...

Emotional eating is a common but often misunderstood behaviour that involves using food to cope with feelings rather than to satisfy physical hunger. Whether it's stress, sadness, boredom, or even ...

Emotional eating behavior may partly explain why some people don't lose weight with a new type of treatment for obesity, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, new research suggests.

For Ernest Hemingway, it was oysters. For Nora Ephron, it was mashed potatoes. For countless recently dumped film and television characters, it’s ice cream. Humans have been eating our emotions for as ...