{"id":412,"date":"2021-01-22T18:38:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T18:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/?p=412"},"modified":"2021-01-22T18:52:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T18:52:48","slug":"spike-of-emotional-eating-amid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/2021\/01\/22\/spike-of-emotional-eating-amid-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike of Emotional Eating Amid Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A recently published online survey<\/a> found that lockdown imposed to stop the spread of COVID-19 increased emotional eating amongst the Italian population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The results of the survey realized in May 2020 but only published online <\/em>on Jan. 14 shows that higher levels of negative emotions, such as anxiety and depression, as well as poor quality of personal relationships and poor quality of life during lockdown led to increased self-reported emotional eating in Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this spike of emotional eating is not exclusive to Italy. As emotional distress caused by the pandemic is occurring all over the world, the eating behaviour of people worldwide has been impacted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe COVID-19 pandemic offers a \u2018perfect storm\u2019 for declining mental health and result in negative outcomes on eating,\u201d wrote the Association for Canadian Studies (ACS) in a study<\/a> published last November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the latter study, the ACS found that Canadians who reported being very afraid of getting the virus were most likely to say that they\u2019ve been eating more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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