If you step outside from a brightly-lit room, you wonât see many stars, even if you live in the country. This is a major issue in suburban areas. If you want to see stars, find a dark spot and wait at least 15 minutes. My home town of San Francisco, California has a lot of hills, and many hilltops happen to be parks. Getting to the top of a hill above most of the streetlights significantly improves the darkness of the sky, at least toward the zenith.
Emotional eating is defined as overeating in order to relieve negative emotions. Thus, emotional eating is considered a maladaptive coping strategy.
People indulge in emotional eating to feel better. When we are stressed, lonely, or even bored we may experience a drop is some of our bodyâs chemical neurotransmitters and hormones. This drop may set off triggers in the brain that cause us to eat to take away that bad or uneasy feeling we are having.