AYURVEDA PERSPECTIVE ON STRESS OVEREATER

When an infant cries, one of your first impulses might be to soothe it with food or a warm bottle. Food is calming. Eating causes your blood sugar to rise, bringing you back to a state of balmy ease. Eating helps brings you down to earth, abating the frenzy of stress.

The most grounding foods are often sweet, oily and hearty. Turning to these comfort foods when you're upset can create a dependency on them, while failing to address the real issues at hand. Developing more adaptive, authentic solutions to confront and handle life's many stresses is crucial to healing stress overeating.

Your emotional resiliency is measured by your ability to experience stress and anxiety directly, without reacting. It requires that you face very subtle forces of shame and fear, allowing yourself to experience them fully without hiding behind food, work, or other distractions and coping mechanisms. Often, subconscious shame and fear actually cause musculo-skeletal tension in the gut, which is misinterpreted as hunger. Releasing tension in this lower gut area is key to overcoming the tendency to eat when stressed.

Augment your diet with these specially chosen ingredients below which may be useful for 'Stress overeater'. Individual results vary depending the cause of your imbalance and by constitution. Please research the ingredients below to find which are most helpful for you, and check with your doctor before making any changes to your health and wellness routine. Please check with your medical doctor before making any changes to your health & wellness routine, and for the proper use of these products.

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DISCLAIMER: The pathogenesis of each person's condition is unique, and so the diet must be fit to the individual and the unique root causes of the condition in your body. The information on this page is for educational purposes only and should not be used to treat a medical condition. It is not a substitute for medical care. Please check with your doctor before making any changes to your health and wellness routine.

Everything you eat has an effect on your body, which Ayurveda categorizes in a simple and easy way, using biocharacteristics (gunas). Biocharacteristics are qualities (like cold and hot) that describe the effect a food or herb has on your body. Cooling foods like cucumber, decrease metabolism. Heating foods like chili pepper, stimulate your body and increase metabolism. For 'Stress overeater', you should select foods with the following biocharacteristics. Individual results will vary, based on your body type and the root cause of your imbalance.

Digestion:

Appetite Suppressant

APPETITE-SUPPRESSANT

Suppresses hunger without causing weight gain.

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Mind, Stress & Sleep:

Nervine

NERVINE

Balances the nervous system. They can help with stress, memory, early alzheimer's, and even chronic pain. Often they are aromatic in nature.

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Sedative

SEDATIVE

Sedative herbs create a sense of calm in the mind and body by specifically calming or quieting the nervous system. Excellent for anxiety, stress and chronic pain.

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AVOID ACCUMULATION IN STAGE OF DISEASE 0

STRESS OVEREATER IS IN STAGE OF DISEASE 0 - POTENTIAL CAUSE

Potential causes increase and disturb your imbalanced doshas and biocharacteristics, causing them to accumulate and spiral out of control. For example, if you're overheated and eat a chili pepper, heat may become excessive and cause disease. As a dosha or biocharacteristic accumulates in your body according to your dietary and lifestyle habits, it is more and more likely to cause disease. You can reduce an imbalanced dosha or biocharacteristic in two ways, by removing, or lessening the frequency of aggravating causes from your diet and lifestyle, as well as by favoring balancing diet and lifestyle practices. For example, try eating something as cool as a cucumber when you're overheated, instead of a chili pepper. (See all disease stages on JB)

GET MY FREE AYURVEDA BODY MAP 'Stress overeater' is likely to aggravate the following doshas and biocharacteristics. If you have a systemic imbalance of one of these doshas or biocharacteristics, Ayurveda would generally recommend removing, substitute or lessen the frequency of 'Stress overeater'.

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The following symptoms & habits may be related to 'Stress overeater'. See your quiz results for a computerized assessment of your body type. Please click on the symptoms below to learn more about them. On average the biocharacteristics of people reporting Stress overeater were less aggravated than 73% of other symptoms. From the 17,964 people who reported Stress overeater average deviation in biocharacteristic levels were the following:

Risk Factors of Stress overeater

Complications of Those Reporting Stress overeater

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