53 Stress Reduction Meal Recipes to Help You Get Through Tough Times and Moments of Anxiety: Delicious Meal Recipes to Help You Cope With Stress By Joe Correa CSN Stress is an emotional condition that is common for all human beings. There isn't a single person in this world who hasn't felt stressed-out at some point in life. Stress is often correlated to binge eating which occurs as some form of response to stressful situations. We can't define stress as a disease, but more like an emotional state and the feeling of being unable to handle our problems. It slowly, without even noticing it, starts affecting our health in so many different ways. Our immune system starts to weaken, we feel tired, sick, and without energy. This leads our body into a state of a hormonal dis balance and sugar levels drop, which often results in overeating. Stress is a proven trigger to so many different and way more dangerous diseases. It's one of the leading causes of heart diseases, having strokes, different organ failures, hormonal imbalance and everything related to it, etc. Binge eating, as a final product of stress, leads to becoming overweight and many other problems that go along with it. It is a vicious cycle that should be stopped and corrected as soon as possible.