You’ve probably experienced stress eating and if you haven’t, you’ve probably heard of it. Things aren’t going too well, or maybe things are going too well and you feel a little overwhelmed, and you find yourself making less than excellent food choices.

Bad Food is Easy

Stress eating, the aptly named condition to define eating when you’re stressed, can be caused by a number of things. Some of these are actually fairly complicated biological events. We’ll start with the simplest things first

Your Body is Programmed to Crave Bad Foods When You’re Stressed

Many of your moods and physiological functions are caused by messenger molecules called “hormones” that your body releases in response to external factors. One of these chemicals is called “cortisol.” This chemical gets pumped into your blood when you’re stressed, and it has a lot to do with how you eat and what your body does with that food.

Bad Foods Make You Feel So Good

There’s one other way in which our genetic make-up is out to get us when it comes to stress eating. We’re all genetically predisposed to an addiction to carbs and fats.

The cards are definitely stacked against you when it comes to stress eating. You can’t always turn these cravings off, but you can outsmart them to satisfy your body’s needs in ways that are much healthier for you.

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