Food Essay Topic Proposal

The Comforts of Food

For my food essay, I wanted to talk about a topic that I think a lot of people can connect to. Depression. For a lot of people, this comes with many side effects. One of which is eating. There are many studies that have come out about people who binge eat to cope, and the reason for this being that eating certain foods can increase serotonin in the brain, which makes you happier. This has become a well known issue and has especially shown itself since this pandemic started and everyone is stuck at home dealing with many stresses. There are studies that show how to help curb these needs to binge, or studies that show what foods to eat that will help more so you have to eat less. Like most recently, people discovered the idea of eating an orange in the shower, which is supposedly meant to help boost your mood (I myself was intrigued and tried it, but just found that it was a weird experience and did not necessarily notice a difference in my mental health). With this topic I think that I will be able to easily blend in depth descriptions of experiences with food while also incorporating research on the topic.