Stress Eaters Compensate by Eating Less, University of Konstanz Study

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A new research has suggested that when faced with stress, some people seem to lose their appetite while others reach for the nearest sweet, salty, or fatty snack. Lead researcher Gudrun Sproesser of the University of Konstanz, in Germany, said that both skippers and munchers have their ‘soft spot’ for food, they just show different compensatory eating patterns in response to positive and negative situations.

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