What emotions have to do with eating? Doctors and researchers insist that emotional eating is a recognized phenomenon.

They explain that if you eat when you are not hungry, or eat at a quick or rapid pace or try to hide the plate in which you have put your food or over-eating, it is identifiable as emotional eating.

It is an unusual disorder that may not have been known for a long time. In fact, emotional eating disorder may also be prevalent in have not societies where those starving and looking for food tend to overeat and hide their over-eating.

Emotional eating is basically an eating disorder where you over stress your system. Diet or nutrition experts describe emotional eating as a disorder that alienates one from self. It creates in you an urge for overeating. Emotional eaters are people who are generally obsessed with eating or thinking about food most of the time.

They look for solutions to their stress problems by over eating. In tense situations they will be having food thoughts. Studies and research conducted by those in diet control for obese or overweight people reveal that nearly every third person who turns up to sign for a weight loss or diet control program had been an emotional eater and suffers from eating disorder. It is more prevalent among men then women.

Some studies suggest that emotional eating disorder is more frequent in certain societies associated with a broader demographic and geographical; distribution than in the case of self esteemed or conscious body weight watchers.

Some of widely accepted symptoms of emotional eating disorders are rapid and quick eating, consuming large amount of eatables, gulping down food articles till one is uncomfortably full or overflowing, preferring isolation while eating, besides nursing a feeling of disgust or guilt for emotional eating.

Emotional eating disorders are now treatable. Questions are put to those who are suffering from emotional eating disorder about what food thoughts they carry all the time and how do they react to their likely weight gain because of their eating habits. If the answers indicate that he is suffering from the syndrome, he is referred to a mental health specialist. Mental health specialists may have one or more sessions with the person concerned before any clinical diagnosis.