What is comfort food and who is more likely to exhibit emotional eating in response to daily hassle stress?

What will be an ideal response?

A potential physiological mechanism for mood alteration includes self-medicating through eating foods that boost serotonin levels (recall from Chapter 7 that serotonin is one of the "feel good" neurotransmitters). Many of the foods that boost serotonin we call comfort foods. For example, carbohydrate rich foods like high fat sugar snacks that are low in protein can minimize increases in cortisol and negative mood elevations in response to stress, presumably through boosting brain tryptophan levels, a precursor to serotonin. Individuals who are high cortisol stress-reactors are more likely to exhibit emotional eating in response to daily hassle stress than low cortisol stress-reactors suggesting that cortisol may play a role in triggering the emotional eating process.