Emotional triggers, such as stress, guilt, and loneliness, or environmental triggers, such as grocery shopping, media, and dieting, can cause binge eating episodes in individuals with binge eating ...

The word trigger is used to describe a stimulus (experience, memory, sensation, feeling, or thought) that "triggers" an uncomfortable, overwhelming, adverse emotional reaction. Once triggered, the ...

Emotional eating, turning to food for comfort, stress relief, or distraction rather than to satisfy physical hunger—affects millions of people and often undermines otherwise successful health ...