By transforming comfort eating toward healthy comfort eating, individuals can receive the benefit of improved dietary nutrition and in turn, decrease their risk of morbidity and mortality over time.

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This study showed that participants' psychological and physiological stress responses were the same regardless of whether they ate healthy comfort foods or traditional comfort foods high in calories, fat, or sugar.

Unhealthy comfort eating shares the same outcome with healthy comfort eating.

Finch, L. E., Cummings, J. R., & Tomiyama, A. J. (2019). Cookie or clementine? Psychophysiological stress reactivity and recovery after eating healthy and unhealthy comfort foods. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 107, 26-36. doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2019.04.022

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