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Emotional Eating (Expert Forum)
Why can't I stop eating salt?
Answered by
Roger Gould, M.D. - Mental Health, Wellness
Questions in the Emotional Eating forum are answered by Dr. Roger Gould. Topics covered include anger and eating, anxiety and eating, binge eating, depression and eating, eating to "fit in", emotional eating, fill the void eating, guilt and eating, loneliness and eating, social eating, and stress and eating.
Why can't I stop eating salt?
by OrganicDominick, Sep 27, 2007 02:10PM
I bet you haven't heard that one!!!
I love salt! Potatoe chips, bacon, chicken noodle soup, cheez, shrimp... If someone told me I would never eat sweet again I would be fine, but take any of those away and I would cry. I even eat salt crystals like candy sometimes! I drink a ton of water, a few liters a day, I eat organic, no MSG or nitrates and nitrites, I have slightly elevated BP 125/75, I had a heart scan, the one where they take pictures from every side and it was fine. I know this has got to be bad for me, but I have no idea how to stop. HELP!
I love salt! Potatoe chips, bacon, chicken noodle soup, cheez, shrimp... If someone told me I would never eat sweet again I would be fine, but take any of those away and I would cry. I even eat salt crystals like candy sometimes! I drink a ton of water, a few liters a day, I eat organic, no MSG or nitrates and nitrites, I have slightly elevated BP 125/75, I had a heart scan, the one where they take pictures from every side and it was fine. I know this has got to be bad for me, but I have no idea how to stop. HELP!
Doctor's Answer
by Roger Gould, M.D., Sep 28, 2007 11:17AM
, Sep 28, 2007 11:17AMTo: Organic
You are right...I haven't heard this one,but I still have a few comments to make. I assume this is learned and acquired taste, not a neurological anomaly. If so, all that means is that these are your comfort foods...probably intimately related to what you ate as a kid, or learned to assosicate with safety, nurturance, and love. If that is so, and if you do not have a weight problem, then enjoy it, as long as your internist tells you there are no long term effects on your kidney's and heart. But if you have a weight problem, or this eating leads to bad health, then you will have to confront this as an emotional eating problem, a bad habit that can be broken, still allowing you some of what you love, but not in the obsessive proportions that you now suggest you are taking....
