Parents often chase their children to force them to eat because they want them to be healthy and grow quickly. However, the effects of force-feeding children can be worrying, sometimes causing stomach aches or losing their natural appetite.

Emotional eating doesn't help us completely eliminate stress. Overeating, especially high-calorie, sweet, and fatty foods, can sabotage your weight loss efforts.

Mental stress, psychological instability or mental illness such as depression can suppress hunger, causing nausea and poor digestion of food called anorexia nervosa. Treatment of anorexia nervosa is mainly through forms of psychotherapy.