The Physics of Binge Eating

I believe that I know what binge eaters are so likely to turn to the comfort of food when they are feeling emotions.  Food adds fat to their body, such that it enables a greater amount of resistance to having an emotional meltdown.  The exact physical equation I am commenting on is Voltage equal Current times Resistance.  It is such that feeling lots of emotions increase the amount of thoughts, such people need to feel the resistance to their emotions primarily by adding fat to their diet.  That is of all properties of foods, fat is the one that is most resistant to current, meaning that as resistance works against the circuitry of emotions via providing relief.

Clearly, binge eating is not an optimal answer to controlling one’s emotions.  However, the way I see it is that it is important not to talk someone out of eating.  That is, though overeating is unhealthy, it can also be protective and necessary, such that it can help prevent an emotional breakdown.  However, I am in definite agreement that overeating is not the best way to handle emotions.

The best way is to reorient one’s thinking such that emotional responses are decreased even when the same stimulus is given.  Thus, the optimal way of combating binge eating is not encouraging people not to eat, but changing how they feel about certain things, or even avoiding problem situations that cause emotional instability.