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In many cases, triggers for emotional eating are external.
In other terms there is an external trigger or sponsoring force encouraging a negative eating pattern.
It can come from friends or family members who suffer from the same negative eating patterns and don't want you to succeed.
Or it can be the marketing hype surrounding junk food.
In the case of friends and family members, you acn observe competitive patterns.
It is because of this competitive attitude that people will encourage negative eating patterns in others.
It is as well related with the desire to share and connect, even if it is within a self destructive circle.
This works in the same way as drinking and smoking.
It is a social thing.
With food corporations stimulating consumption of junk food, the interest in profit.
The agenda is very similar though!
Someone benefits from someone else eating junk food.
So, when confronting with positive food choices, a person will often select junk food instead of healthy food because of the ongoing marketing brain washing which is now totally subconsciously embeded in people's minds.
All these positive images associated with junk food are now paying off and to experience fun, joy or pleasure, someone will head for the junk food section because they want to experience thse same positive emotions again and again.
The truth is the the pleasure that someone experiences when eating healthy is from a totally different octave!
The pleasure you egt when eating raw food is so intense and delightful and totally overpowers the emotions associated with junk food.
If it is bad for you, why do you eat it? - ARTICLE
Because it satisfies an emotional drive.
The chemicals which are released when responding to emotional eating are simply more needed than the ones created when you respond to rational or healthy food choices.
In some situations, when eating patterns are healthy, the release of biochemicals associated with good foods will be a perfect match.
In thse cases, emotional eating is solved. The pattern is overpowered by a force which is stronger.
Emotional eating - The top nutrition challenge in today's society - ARTICLE
Yes! It is that simple!
The number one health and nutrition challenge people face is emotional eating.
In other terms, when people eat unhealthy, thy don't chose the foods and nutrition habits which are good for them, it is their emotional conditioning which does take over and directs the eating game.
Cookie snacks, fast food, junk of all types, sweets, ice creams, etc.
All these bad choices are related with one thing only: the overpowering of the action by an self destructive emotional drive.
In some cases, this emotional drive is relatively soft and the consequences ofr the body are not too strong.
In other situations, this emotional eating pattern is so bad that a person can enter a self destructive eating pattern which will destroy their life.
The negative health consequences can be so bad that a person dies as a consequnce of these negative eating patterns.
What is the conclusion?
Food is an addiction for many people.
In these cases reason and will power are often overpowered by this emotional drive which does take over.
In other terms, the final solution for solving self destructive eating patterns is about tackling this single behavior: emotional eating.
Today's eating or health crisis can be summarized to this simple challenge.
Solving it would get rid of 90% of the health problems related with bad eating patterns.