The Interplay of Gender, Mood, and Stress Hormones in the Association between Emotional Eating and Dietary behavior

Human and animal studies indicate that stress may affect eating behavior in various ways, under different circumstances. Generally, intense emotions trigger inhibited food intake through fight-or-flight responses, which result in glucose release into the blood stream, thus suppressing the feelings of hunger (1). Conversely, impaired cognitive eating control, emotion-congruent modulation of eating, and eating to regulate emotions have been...