In modern society some people eat not only to satisfy their hunger, but sometimes to enjoy and relish tasty dishes. Sometimes it even appears as if people don’t eat to live but they live only to eat! In creating such a situation, the contribution of advertisements of processed food, released through different mass media is by no means small.
The popular image of a fat person is that he is a happy go lucky man always jovial and gay. In fact fat persons have little option but to project only this side of their personality. Behind the mask of his smiling face and sense of humor lies his tremendous internal conflict.
That psychological factors also play a role in causing obesity, is a fact well known since years. It is popular way to try to find an easy solution to serious problems and tensions of life through food. Sense of insecurity, depression and failure generate tendency to eat more and more. Constant activity of eating gives some mental peace to a person. A fat person generally tries to develop a false sense of security by indulging in overeating. During a survey of 500 fat persons, it was noticed that 370 of them were eating more when they were worried or depressed, 95 ate more when they were tired and bored, and the rest of 35 had nothing but genuine love for food and eating.
Emotional excitement can be suppressed with heavy meal. A meal is a symbol of love and affection. When a person fails in getting love from any quarters, such love hungry person finds a sweet alternative in food. And that is perhaps the reason why we insist on forcing our guests to eat, displaying thereby our love, warmth and affection for them!
In short fat people maintain their psychological balance by overeating and gradually they form carbohydrate addiction. Fat people generally present their obesity as an excuse to cover their failures and laziness and they also avoid social functions or avoid responsibilities.
In short, psychological factors do play an important role in causing obesity and if a person fails to reduce his or her weight even after resorting to all the known remedies, it is likely that some psychological problem is at work behind his obesity.
The popular image of a fat person is that he is a happy go lucky man always jovial and gay. In fact fat persons have little option but to project only this side of their personality. Behind the mask of his smiling face and sense of humor lies his tremendous internal conflict.
That psychological factors also play a role in causing obesity, is a fact well known since years. It is popular way to try to find an easy solution to serious problems and tensions of life through food. Sense of insecurity, depression and failure generate tendency to eat more and more. Constant activity of eating gives some mental peace to a person. A fat person generally tries to develop a false sense of security by indulging in overeating. During a survey of 500 fat persons, it was noticed that 370 of them were eating more when they were worried or depressed, 95 ate more when they were tired and bored, and the rest of 35 had nothing but genuine love for food and eating.
Emotional excitement can be suppressed with heavy meal. A meal is a symbol of love and affection. When a person fails in getting love from any quarters, such love hungry person finds a sweet alternative in food. And that is perhaps the reason why we insist on forcing our guests to eat, displaying thereby our love, warmth and affection for them!
In short fat people maintain their psychological balance by overeating and gradually they form carbohydrate addiction. Fat people generally present their obesity as an excuse to cover their failures and laziness and they also avoid social functions or avoid responsibilities.
In short, psychological factors do play an important role in causing obesity and if a person fails to reduce his or her weight even after resorting to all the known remedies, it is likely that some psychological problem is at work behind his obesity.
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