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Bast ES, Berry EM. Laugh Away the Fat? Therapeutic Humor in the Control of Stress-induced Emotional Eating. Rambam Maimonides Med J. 2014;5(1):e0007doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10141.
Bast, E. S., & Berry, E. M. (2014). Laugh Away the Fat? Therapeutic Humor in the Control of Stress-induced Emotional Eating. Rambam Maimonides medical journal, 5(1), e0007. https://doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10141
Bast, Elizabeth S, and Berry, Elliot M. "Laugh Away the Fat? Therapeutic Humor in the Control of Stress-induced Emotional Eating." Rambam Maimonides medical journal vol. 5,1 (2014): e0007. doi: https://doi.org/10.5041/RMMJ.10141
Bast ES, Berry EM. Laugh Away the Fat? Therapeutic Humor in the Control of Stress-induced Emotional Eating. Rambam Maimonides Med J. 2014 Jan 21;5(1):e0007. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10141. eCollection 2014 Jan. PMID: 24498514; PMCID: PMC3904482.
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Rambam Maimonides Med J. 2014 Jan 21;5(1):e0007. doi: 10.5041/RMMJ.10141. eCollection 2014 Jan.

Laugh Away the Fat? Therapeutic Humor in the Control of Stress-induced Emotional Eating.

Rambam Maimonides medical journal

Elizabeth S Bast, Elliot M Berry

Affiliations

  1. University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States and.
  2. Department of Human Nutrition & Metabolism, Braun School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel.

PMID: 24498514 PMCID: PMC3904482 DOI: 10.5041/RMMJ.10141

Abstract

This review explores the potential overlap between the fields of nutrition and therapeutic humor, together with the role of humor as a possible tool for aiding those in whom emotions, particularly negative ones, trigger eating as a means to improve mood. We review emotional eating, obesity, and the hypothesized mechanisms of emotional eating. We then review the field of therapeutic humor and its ability to de-stress individuals, possibly through endorphin and opioid systems, both of which are also involved in eating behavior. Finally, we present a novel hypothesis that people may be trained to use humor as a "food substitute" at best, or to blunt hunger stimuli, to achieve similar advantages, without the side effect of weight gain.

Keywords: Emotional eating; humor; obesity; sociotype; stress

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