What is Emotional Eating

by Dr Jacques Lubbe PhD
This is just a short introduction to a very common problem. To solve a problem one must firtsly identify it.

Emotional eating is when someone eats in response to emotional feelings in stead of a hunger response or for nutritional nourishment. There can be different reasons for this. It is usually related to one’s natural strategy to cope with stress. For example a twin sister can get engaged and married leaving the other twin feeling lonely and insignificant; she will then use some or other strategy to cope with this added stress in her life. She can go out making new friends, actively looking for a partner or starting a new hobby. Sometimes she may start binge eating to distract her from being lonely. Sometimes eating can also give a rewarding feeling which will also help her to cope with the added stress of being lonely.

Identifying her eating cues and changing her responses to these cues is very important if she want to control her emotional eating. For emotional eaters eating alleviates negative emotions. Eating can also help to escape or divert the attention away from an ego threatening situation that can cause aversive self awareness. It is a way to escape this aversive awareness by focusing the attention to external stimulations. Emotional eaters’ coping strategies or mechanisms fail them and they overeat because it is thought to temporarily provide comfort and distraction from these aversive emotions.

The three basic stress coping strategies:

Emotional-oriented coping: When actions are directed at changing emotional responses to stress including attempts to reframe a problem to elicit a less stressful reaction.

Task-oriented coping: When direct action is taken to alter the situation to reduce the amount of stress the situation evokes.

Avoidance-oriented coping: Where stressful situations are avoided or the existence of a stressful situation is denied or even by losing hope.

Who is at risk?

Women are especially prone to emotional eating -- and then feel guiltier and less healthy than men do after snacking on "forbidden" foods. Under normal circumstances physiological responses to negative emotions and stress mimic internal sensations associated with eating induced fullness or satiety. Loss of appetite and reduced food intake are associated with negative emotions. An increase in food intake is actually an inappropriate reaction to negative emotions and stress. Emotional eating is contributed to individual characteristics and is an exception to the norm.

How Can Loozemor Appetite Help You?

After identifying your own personal eating cues you will have to change your way of dealing with the stress that caused it. This however may be a long and difficult task. During this process Loozemor appetite will help you by reducing that initial urge to snack or binge. Loozemor will be a supportive measure to help you through this process.



References and links:

SPOOR, T.P., BEKKER, M.H.J., VAN STRIEN, T., HECK, G.L. 2007 Relations between negative affect, coping, and emotional eating. Appetite v48: 368-376p.

Tips to stop Emotional Eating: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/160656.php

More about coping strategies: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCR/is_1_39/ai_n13603935/

More info regarding about emotional eating: http://weightloss.about.com/od/emotionaleatin1/tp/emotionaleating.htm

Guarana And Weight Loss

Weight Loss Benefits of Guarana

by Dr Jacques Lubbe PhD Pharm

www.loozemor.com

 

 

Guarana Seeds is one of the main ingredients used in Loozemor Appetite syrup.  Here is a list of some of the Weight Loss Benefits of guarana seeds:

 

- Guarana is a fat burner

- Guarana act as a energy stimulant

- Guarana helps withstand hunger

- Guarana increases Endurance

- Guarana helps the body to cope with stress

- Guarana contains strong antioxidants

 

Guarana is a South American fruit of which the extract is commonly used in medicines and energy soda drinks.  Ingesting guarana is highly stimulating and was originally used by indigenous South American people to withstand hunger and to increase their endurance.  Medicinal products mostly use the seeds of these fruits because it is the seed which contains the majority of the active ingredients.  [2]  In addition to caffeine guarana also contains natural phytochemicals called saponins and tannins.  Tannins are very strong antioxidants also found in red wine, they act as free radical scavengers in the body.  The Saponins found in guarana act as adaptogens in the body. Adaptogens is chemicals that helps the human body cope with stress and trauma.  [3]  Guarana seed extracts will also help  with the breakdown of body fat into various fatty acids so that your body can used it as  energy. [1] 

 

By adding Guarana seed to Weight Loss Products like Loozemor Appetite syrup your body will:

 

-    break down body fat quicker

-    better cope with the additional stress of weight loss programs

-    suppress appetite and cravings

-    give extra energy when needed most.

 

Guarana is  one of the wonderful gifts in earths abundant  medicine chest that will make a difference in your life.       

 

 

 

 

 

References:

[1]    DALLAS, C., GERBI, A., TENKA, G., JUCHAUX, F. AND BERNARD, F.  2008.  Lipolytic effect of a polyphenolic citrus dry extract of red orange, grapefruit, orange (Sinetrol) in human body fat adipocytes.  Mechanism of action by inhibition of c-AMP-phoshodiesterase (PDE).  Phytomedicine 15 (2008), p 783-792.

[2]    BAUMANN, T.W., SCHULLTHESS, B.H. AND HÄNNI, K.  1994.  Guaranna (Paullinia Cupana) rewards seed dispersers without intoxicating them by caffeine.  Phytochemistry. vol 9 (5). p 1063-1070.

[3]    ESPINOLA, E.B., DIAS, R.F., MATTEI, R. AND GARLINI E.A.  1996.  Pharmacologicalactivity of guarana (Paullina Cupana Mart.) in laboratory animals.  Journal of Ethnopharmacology.  vol 55.  p223-229.