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Relationship between Mental Health and Emotional Eating during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 80 citations in OpenAlex.
- Daily routine disruptions and psychiatric symptoms amid COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of data from 0.9 million individuals in 32 countries.BMC medicine · 2024Pooled it
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- From Scroll to Soul: Spirituality as a Moderator Between Social Media Addiction, Emotional Eating, and Quality of Life Among Young Adults in Poland.Journal of religion and health · 2026Article
- Physical activity, emotional eating, screen-based sedentary behavior, and physical and mental health in chinese university students: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Emotional eating behaviour and obesity in adolescents: a cross-sectional survey in Taizhou, China.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2026Article
- A social cognitive theory and theory of planned behavior-based serial multiple mediation model of social media-related factors and eating behaviors among sports science students.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Association Between Anxiety and Diet Quality Among Polish Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- High Salt Intake and Atherosclerosis Progression-Not Only via Blood Pressure: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Physical activity during COVID-19 pandemic: A 5-year retrospect.Sports medicine and health science · 2025Review
- Eating Disorders in the Workplace.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Exploring the Impact of Emotional Eating in Children: A Narrative Review.Pediatric reports · 2025Review
- Conceptualizing the effects of COVID-19 on eating and physical activity in people with type 2 diabetes and hypertension in Ecuador using the social ecological model.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Exploring the Impact of Emotional Eating Among University Students: A Literature Review.Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Prevalence of adverse cardiometabolic health markers in UK undergraduate university students: an observational cohort study.BMJ open · 2025Observational
- The impact of COVID-19 fear during the later stages of the pandemic on maladaptive eating, psychological distress and body weight: a global cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2025Observational
- Impact of Lifestyle Changes on Body Weight Gain During Nationwide Lockdown Due to COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Impact of Interrupting Oral Prevention on Dental Health of 7- to 8-Year-Old Children Due to COVID-19.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Triangulated evidence provides no support for bidirectional causal pathways between diet/physical activity and depression/anxiety.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Binge eating as an emotional response to the COVID-19 pandemic: a sequential mediation model via the impact of events and social anxiety.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Cardiometabolic risk factors of post-bariatric patients two years after COVID-19 pandemic onset: a longitudinal study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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Abstract
Obesity is one of the most dangerous epidemics of the 21st century. In 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic began and caused many deaths among patients with obesity with and without complications. Simultaneously, the lockdown related to the COVID-19 pandemic caused a host of emotional problems including anxiety, depression, and sleep disturbances. Many people began to cope with their emotions by increasing food (emotional eating) and alcohol consumption and in combination with decreased physical activity, promoted the development of overweight and obesity. Emotional eating, also known as stress eating, is defined as the propensity to eat in response to positive and negative emotions and not physical need. It should be noted that emotional eating may be the first step in the development of binge eating disorder and its extreme subtypes such as food addiction. Interestingly in some post-bariatric surgery patients, an increased frequency of addictive disorders has been observed, for example food addiction replaced by alcohol addiction called: "cross addiction" or "addiction transfer". This data indicates that obesity should be treated as a psychosomatic disease, in the development of which external factors causing the formation of negative emotions may play a significant role. Currently, one of these factors is the COVID-19 pandemic. This manuscript discusses the relationships between the COVID-19 pandemic and development of emotional eating as well as potential implications of the viral pandemic on the obesity pandemic, and the need to change the approach to the treatment of obesity in the future.
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