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Stress, eat, repeat?

What happens to our eating habits when we’re stressed, and how to change that.

When you’re feeling stressed, does it affect your appetite?

In this programme Ruth Alexander is joined by two experts in chronic stress to discuss why it can cause us to crave certain foods, the impact on our bodies and whether there’s anything we can do to prepare for periods of stress in our lives.

Ruth is joined by Professor Rajita Sinha, clinical psychologist and founding director of the Yale University Interdisciplinary Stress Center in the United States, and Dr Mithu Storoni, neuro-ophthalmologist and author of the books ‘Stress-Proof’ and ‘Hyperefficient’.

If you would like to get in touch with the show, please email: thefoodchain@bbc.co.uk

Presented by Ruth Alexander.

Produced by Beatrice Pickup and Bisi Adebayo.

(Image: a woman studying and eating a slice of pizza whilst wearing headphones. Credit: Getty Images/ ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½)

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26 minutes

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Sun 11 May 2025 17:32GMT

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