Wed 9 Dec 2009
The Real Reason we Pile on the Pounds
Posted by EPR Network under Consumer Services, Featured, Healthcare, Society
Released on: December 09, 2009, 1:01 pm
Author: The Hospital Group
Industry: Healthcare
A new poll has revealed that one of the reasons men and women gain weight is because of being stressed out.
It has been proven that stressful episodes cause your body to go into survival mode, so your metabolism slows down, more calories are stored and cortisol and leptin- the stress hormones- are dumped in the abdominal region, adding to weight gain.
The waist expanding effect of stress was recently confirmed by a study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. The researchers also found that women’s waistlines were affected by more types of stress than men’s; as well as money and job problems, women’s weight was shown to be inflamed by relationship difficulties and feeling trapped in their lives.
For many stressed out Brits, it can be a vicious circle of feeling frazzled, and so consequently eating the wrong things to feel better, which only ends up accentuating the issue.
