TY - JOUR
T1 - Laugh Away the Fat?
T2 - Therapeutic Humor in the Control of Stress-induced Emotional Eating
AU - Bast, Elizabeth S
AU - Berry, Elliot M
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - This review explores the potential overlap between the fields of nutrition and therapeutic humor, together with the role of humor as a possible tool for aiding those in whom emotions, particularly negative ones, trigger eating as a means to improve mood. We review emotional eating, obesity, and the hypothesized mechanisms of emotional eating. We then review the field of therapeutic humor and its ability to de-stress individuals, possibly through endorphin and opioid systems, both of which are also involved in eating behavior. Finally, we present a novel hypothesis that people may be trained to use humor as a "food substitute" at best, or to blunt hunger stimuli, to achieve similar advantages, without the side effect of weight gain.
AB - This review explores the potential overlap between the fields of nutrition and therapeutic humor, together with the role of humor as a possible tool for aiding those in whom emotions, particularly negative ones, trigger eating as a means to improve mood. We review emotional eating, obesity, and the hypothesized mechanisms of emotional eating. We then review the field of therapeutic humor and its ability to de-stress individuals, possibly through endorphin and opioid systems, both of which are also involved in eating behavior. Finally, we present a novel hypothesis that people may be trained to use humor as a "food substitute" at best, or to blunt hunger stimuli, to achieve similar advantages, without the side effect of weight gain.
U2 - 10.5041/RMMJ.10141
DO - 10.5041/RMMJ.10141
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C2 - 24498514
SN - 2076-9172
VL - 5
JO - Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal
JF - Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal
IS - 1
M1 - e0007
ER -