key: cord-0734888-c41ibf5t authors: Gonçalves dos Santos Aguilar, Jessika title: Emotional eating in times of COVID-19 date: 2021-07-29 journal: Nutrition DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2021.111438 sha: 99177b00af0afe05dc3e90edb99fdf7edcff5e9a doc_id: 734888 cord_uid: c41ibf5t nan In this time of uncertainty, people are struggling with their emotions, which is reflected on what they eat, impacting their health and well-being, creating adverse effects not yet known, which will need to be accommodated by doctors and care systems [14] . In a world where disorders related to food consumption exists, our society needs to raise awareness and take measures to improve health conditions while combating the pandemic. There is a necessity to create strategies to fight the spread of other pandemic related disorders, otherwise, the world will be accompanied by the COVID-19 pandemic's side effects for a long time. This gap cannot be left open, or else disorders that the population is already suffering from will worsen. Emotion regulation difficulties interact with negative, not positive, emotional eating to strengthen relationships with disordered eating: An exploratory study A review of measurement and relationships between food, eating behavior and emotion Biased signaling: A viable strategy to drug ghrelin receptors for the treatment of obesity The psychiatric impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak The outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus and its impact on global mental health Letter to the editor: Headline stress disorder caused by Netnews during the outbreak of COVID-19 The psychological impact of quarantine and how to reduce it: rapid review of the evidence Object attachment and decision-making Eating disorders in the time of COVID-19