Story suggests five ways to end emotional eating

Cynthia Sass

Registered dietitian and best-selling author Cynthia Sass has an intriguing new story on our relationship with food on foxnews.com.
In "5 ways to shut down emotional eating," Cynthia points to a new study from Germany that indicates that when you're feeling down, you may keep eating fatty foods because you're less likely to taste the fat in the foods. Her conclusion: "emotions impact our sensory perceptions of food."
Cynthia offers five strategies to break the pattern:

• Let it out: Find healthy ways to release your emotions.
• Don't multi-soothe: Eat without distractions.
• Distance yourself: Stash those fatty foods in hard-to-reach places.
• Prevent the spiral: Don't let a "bad" meal become a "bad" day.
• Structure your time: Plan your weekends so you have less unstructured time, when the risk of emotional eating seems to be greater.

Be sure to read the story for more details from Cynthia.

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