Figure 1.

During stressful period, there is a change in what kind of food is eaten, independent of hyperphagia or hypophagia. There is a shift in food intake toward ‘comfort foods’ that is independent of whether total caloric intake increases (dashed line) or decreases (solid line) from normal intake (horizontal dot-dashed line). Student intake was retrospectively interrogated during periods of no stress (normal) or exam stress; the type of foods eaten and the amounts of foods were compared during the two periods. Whether or not food intake increased or decreased, the kind of food ingested shifted toward the more palatable sorts (from [14], with permission).