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Stress Fattens You Up
The most direct route is the food-in-mouth syndrome: Stressful circumstances (your bank account, your boss) spark cravings for carbohydrate-rich snack foods, which in turn calm stress hormones. (When researchers in one study took away high-carb food from stressed mice, their stress hormones surged.)
Stress hormones also ramp up fat storage. For our prehistoric ancestors, stress meant drought or approaching tigers, and a rapid-storage process made sense; we needed the extra energy to survive food shortages or do battle. Today we take our stress ‘sitting down’ and the unused calories accumulate in our midsection.
To whittle yourself back down to size, in addition to your usual workout routine, make time for ‘stress relief’ whether it’s a yoga class or quality time with family.
From www.readersdigest.com from an article written by Joanne Chen.
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