Comfort Foods and its Impact on Individual Psychology-A Review Article

Abstract

Stress can be considered as feeling when a person believes that demands exceed the personal and social resources the individual is able to mobilize and it affects its homeostasis Stress on a rise in covid -19 pandemic due to socioeconomic conditions loss of family members uncertainty decreased human interaction etc 1 People are increasingly spending more time at home because the educational institutes have turned towards online modes of teaching and many employees have been made to work from home Comfort foods can be defined as food to which a person has emotional and nostalgic attachment and have a component of unhealthiness tastiness and are easy to prepare It is not necessary that all these characteristics are found in all comfort foods but one of these is usually present 3