Bourdier, L., Orri, M., Carre, A., Gearhardt, A. N., Romo, L., Dantzer, C., & Berthoz, S. (2018). Are emotionally driven and addictive-like eating behaviors the missing links between psychological distress and greater body weight? Appetite, 120, 536-546. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2017.10.013
From the conclusion: “Our results stress the importance of considering overeating to reduce negative emotions and addictive-like eating as eating-related phenotypes that may increase the likelihood of having a higher BMI. Here, this was the case for both females and males. This study further underline the importance of paying regard to the links between how one’s feel and one’s eat in the multidimensional treatment of compulsive eating behaviors …”