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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.

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emetaphobia

by x_katie_x, Apr 25, 2008 08:29AM

Tags: food diet depressed

my boyfriend has emetaphobia (fear of being sick) he has a really bad diet and only eats pasta and junk food because he knows he won't be sick of it. Its ruining his life and making him depressed what can I do to help?

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by Roger Gould, M.D.

, Apr 25, 2008 07:33PM

To: katie

You can have him talk to a doctor or a nutritionist to get his facts straight for a start...junk food and pasta do not guarantee that he will not get sick, and in fact, can make him sick.

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