Eating patterns are directly connected with emotional issues arising both from childhood and from current stresses. The patterns of how we eat or don’t eat, and how much we eat, are strongly related to the levels of stress we experience and to the coping responses we have developed in face of life’s vicissitudes. In turn, dietary habits intimately affect the functioning of the hormones that influence the female reproductive tract. Anorexics, for example, will often stop menstruating.
