Does emotional eating affect women more than men?
ED: I think it affects both women and men—it’s a human nature thing. We’re actually battling two things here, it’s not just the emotional connection, it’s also the fact that modern day foods are working against us because of how they’ve been made. The food industry has evolved in such a way that there’s more and more food available to us that has been further and further removed from what traditional food should be. Snack foods and processed foods have been made to be addictive to us. It only makes it harder for everyone. NSD: Can you appear healthy and still emotionally eat? ED: Absolutely, it’s very common. You can be someone who counts your calories, exercises a lot, eats right and has a slender physique, but you can also be someone that goes home at night and nurtures your wounds by eating to heal an emotional issue rather than to nourish yourself. Emotional eaters eat when they’re not hungry and eat out of sadness, boredom or to deal with stress. Just as well, if someone is overwe
