This article expands upon our understanding of the relationship between stress and weight-gain.
Why you shouldn't reward yourself with a donut after a long day
You might think that on a high-intensity stressful day would cause you to burn more calories, but research shows you’d likely be wrong.
Women who ate a high-fat meal after they were stressed burned calories more slowly, according to a new study.
Our bodies metabolize slower under stress, but the types of food we crave when we are stressed or depressed tend to be very high in fat and sugar.New research published in the journal Biological Psychiatry suggests how that combination of factors could result in significant weight gain.
Researchers from Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center interviewed 58 women about stressors they experienced the day before, such as arguments with spouses or trouble with kids, before giving them a meal of eggs, turkey sausage, biscuits and gravy containing 930 calories and 60 grams of fat.
The women then wore masks which were able to measure their metabolism by calculating inhaled and exhaled airflow of oxygen and carbon dioxide. The researchers also measured the women’s blood sugar, triglycerides (cholesterol), insulin and the stress hormone cortisol.
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