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Emotional Eating Directory
Emotions can cause people to react in many ways, sometimes including overeating. Emotional eating can cause intense cravings for food, even obsession. The treatments for any emotional eating include distraction, drinking water, relaxing, and seeking medical help when necessary. Follow the links below to find WebMD's comprehensive coverage about how emotional eating is caused, how to treat it, and much more.
Medical Reference
Helping Your Overweight Child to Lose Weight
WebMD offers suggestions to parents for helping their overweight children lose or maintain their weight.
Bulimia: The Basics
Learn more from WebMD about the basics of bulimia - its causes, characteristics, and effects on the body.
Preventing Bulimia
WebMD explains bulimia prevention.
What Are the Symptoms of Bulimia Nervosa?
Do you know the signs that someone may have the eating disorder bulimia nervosa?
Features
Emotional Eating: Feeding Your Feelings
Eating to feed a feeling, and not a growling stomach, is emotional eating.
How to Break Food Addictions
Are you driven to eat certain foods? It could be an addiction.
Healthy Alternatives to Snacking
Fruit smoothies, nachos, frozen yogurt, and other snacks make great healthy -- and tasty -- treats.
Break Your Food Addictions
Are you driven to eat certain foods? It could be an addiction.
Video
The Truth About Eating Disorders
Two teenage friends struggling with anorexia and bulimia discuss their illness, treatment, and how to support one another.
Losing Weight and Keeping It Off
An expert discusses diet, exercise, mental preparation, and rapid weight loss.
Binge Eating Disorder
Eating addiction is one of the hardest to overcome because it’s necessary to live.
Slideshows & Images
A Guide to Understanding Eating Disorders
When does a weekend food fest or a strict diet reveal an eating disorder? Pictures show the symptoms and treatments for anorexia, binge eating, and bulimia.
Visual Guide to Binge Eating Disorder
Binge eating disorder is different from bulimia, in that people don't "purge" after a binge. Learn about the causes, symptoms, treatment, and recovery.