Cookie or clementine? Psychophysiological stress reactivity and recovery after eating healthy and unhealthy comfort foods

While physical activity and healthy eating appear to offer protection against stress and negative affect, Schultchen et al. (2019) point out a few studies that have demonstrated a reduction in these behaviors in the face of stress and negative affect. This present study therefore inspected the relationship between these behaviors in daily life using ecological […]

Pasquali (2012) writes that obesity is believed to develop as a result of people’s inability to adapt to chronic environmental stress exposure that is mediated by a dysregulation of related neuroendocrine axes. One axis that plays a major role in this context is the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. But the author reports that a person’s sex also […]