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Obesity is a condition in which the energy reserve within human body is raised to a level where it can create certain health conditions or an increased mortality. Obesity is becoming viewed as an increasing public health threat. Obesity is being considered to predispose different diseases like sleep apnea, cardiovascular diseases, etc.

Stress is a major factor in Obesity. Emotions and environment stress impacts a person’s overeating pattern significantly.

Emotional status generally effects the mind of the consumer of the food while he/she is eating something. When individuals are not in an emotionaly stable position due to some stress, they may be inclined to fall back to over eating.

In the psychological opinion, there are two main standpoints regarding obesity. These are the outwardness hypothesis and the psychodynamic hypothesis.

It is seen that overeating is considered to be a means of diminishing anxiety, relieving frustration and deprivation, calming oneself, diminishing guilt and handling anxiety. Theorists Rakoff and Garetz depict overeating as a way of dealing with emotions like anxiety, anger, despair, and depression, all of which are associated with stress.

Kornhaber characterizes the obese individuals overeating practice as happening in response to emotional suffering, especially depression.

From these studies it is quite apparent that when an obese person experiences stress, especially when the cause of the stress is ill-defined, he/she will respond by eating. The obese individual may use food in an attempt to regain a sense of self control when that sense is disturbed. Then overeating will lead the individual who is hurting from the stress to be obese which may then trigger certain other problems.

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