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Emotional Eaters Definition Approximately 75% of overeating is caused by emotions (Armitage and Conner 102). An eating disorder is when a person consumes large quantities of food in response to feelings and not hunger. Examples of these psychological feelings are anxiety, depression, loneliness, anger, stress and boredom. Stress has a big effect on a person’s food intake because they fail to distinguish between anxiety and hunger (Armitage and Conner 104). There are two hypotheses linking stress and eating: general effect model and individual difference model. The general effect model demonstrates that stress changes food intake (Ogden 240). This model does not have concrete evidence because studies haven been done on animals. The individual difference model predicts that stress only causes changes in eating in vulnerable groups of individuals (Ogden 240). This model focuses on varying groups, for instance; obese and non-obese and women and men.
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