Food+and+Emotions

** Food and Emotions **
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Picture This! A mother and her four year old son are in the grocery store shopping for their weekly food. The child is in the buggy singing, smiling, and enjoying life. As the mother passes the dessert aisle the child’s entire demeanor changes, now the child’s songs of joy, turned into ear-piercing wails and screams. His emotions were hurt because his mother said that she was not stopping and did not care if he cried. Just as the little boy broke down, that’s exactly how the rest of society acts, just not quite as dramatic. Food is used to celebrate, calm, relieve boredom or depression, and comfort in times of sadness. Eating has never and never will be simply about satisfying physical hunger. We eat not only satisfy a rumbling stomach, but also to satisfy the appetite and deal with emotions.  There are two theories about the food we eat, and the emotions that come along with it. “The psychosomatic theory of obesity proposes that eating may reduce anxiety.” The Internal Theory is one that concerns food and emotion, which “hypothesizes that overweight people do not recognize physiological cues of hunger or satiety because of faulty learning.” Eating food high in fat tends to dull the mind and cloud the thinking. “The process of digesting fatty food is so demanding requiring blood which is directed that is diverts away from the brain.” This short essay explains the reason why after a big Sunday dinner meal we feel very tired and sluggish. “Our thinking process becomes slower and in some cases a mild form of depression form."

**__Bibloiography__**
 * "Food and emotion. [Behav Processes. 2002] - PubMed result." //National Center for Biotechnology Information//. Web. 2 Dec. 2010. < [] >. **