Some would never give up a dinner just before a TV series, but increasingly we come across scientific research linking this habit to conditions such as depression, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and cardiovascular problems. focus.it.
An Oxford Economics analysis of 8,000 people suggests that eating alone is the highest indicator of unhappiness of all excluding mental illness.
Eating alone can affect the amount of food ingested, make us choose very fatty or high-calorie dishes under the pretext that no one sees us.
However, at the same time, eating habits are particularly complex to study because they are related to the culture they belong to, the socio-economic conditions of the subjects studied and the duration of studies of this type.
Studies on the number of diners and the amount of food ingested are also inconsistent.
While studies have found, on the one hand, that adult men who eat alone are more often overweight or underweight, others show that when we are in company we tend to eat more.
Not to mention that the type of person we eat with can also affect the outcome of our meal.
In fact, at certain times, eating can only be the result and not the cause of poor health conditions, for example, an overweight person may feel embarrassed to eat in society, because of the amount of food they feel they have had. need.
At that moment in life, loneliness at the table can be the result of a difficult psycho-physical condition.