Relationship between Emotional Eating, Consumption of Hyperpalatable Energy-Dense Foods, and Indicators of Nutritional Status: A Systematic Review

Table 5

Studies that report a relationship between the intake of hyperpalatable energy-dense foods, emotional eating, and indicators of nutritional status.

Author	Location	Population	Study design	Findings
Pontes et al. [28]	Madrid, Spain	Adult men and women	Longitudinal study	Determining the relationship between food intake and emotions allows for personalization of the dietary strategy to reduce body weight and lower the quit rate.
Braden et al. [52]	New York	University	Randomized controlled trial	Although decreased emotional eating was associated with greater odds of weight loss success, the gold standard behavioral weight loss treatment for overweight adults did not produce major improvements in emotional eating compared to usual care.
Lazarevich et al. [30]	Mexico City	University	Comparative cross-sectional study	Emotional eating was a mediator between depression and BMI, adjusted for age in both sexes. This finding suggests that the management of emotions should be taken into account in obesity prevention and treatment strategies applied to young adults.
Bénard et al. [53]	France	Adults	Prospective cohort study	Impulsivity and consideration of future consequences moderated the association between emotional eating and body weight status.
Konttinen et al. [54]	Finland	Adults	Prospective cohort study	Eating in response to negative emotions mediated positive associations between depression and increased BMI and WC for 7 years, supporting the hypothesis that emotional eating is a behavioral mechanism linking depression and the development of obesity and abdominal obesity.
Shriver et al. [55]	North Carolina	Children and adolescents	Prospective longitudinal study	The regulation of childhood emotions plays a critical role in shaping subsequent emotional eating into dysregulated eating behavior that has been closely associated with increased adiposity and an increased risk of obesity in adolescence and adulthood.
Czepczor-Bernat, et al. [56]	Poland (Silesia)	Adults	Observational study	Significant relationships were found between (almost all) behaviors related to eating, emotional functioning, and body mass index in adults.