Women more likely to reach for junk food when stressed, study suggests | rachwells
Australian researchers have turned up evidence that females are more likely than males to reach for junk food when they experience negative emotions, at least when it comes to mice. However, the response is not being attributed to female hormones.
"We know emotional eating occurs in both sexes, but is over-represented in females, I just didn't expect to see such a striking recapitulation of what you see in humans. It was a bit surprising." "We do know that in the human literature and even anecdotally that women suffer from emotional eating more than men but in terms of understanding why that's happening, we haven't had very good animal models to look at this, because for most animals when you stress them they will actually stop eating."
"Our research is telling us that there is something about the brains of female mice that is reacting differently to that emotional experience and causing the binge eating," she says. She says the findings could be life-changing for people who suffer from emotional eating, binge eating and obesity.
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