Stress Makes Us Hungry
For many of us stress is a lifestyle. Unfortunately, according to scientists it can lead to obesity, but we cannot say to our body not to feel stressed because every day we find ourselves in the middle of stressful situations. Even though you eat healthy food and spend an hour in the gym, chronic stress can prevent your body from losing weight.
Stress Makes Us Hungry
Human body responds to all types of stress - physical and mental – in the same way. Every time you have astressful situation during the day, your brain reacts as if you are under physical threat and instructs your cells to secrete hormones. The level of adrenaline in your body increases, releasing the accumulated energy, so you can fight or run. At the same time you have a great splash of cortisol and this makes your body keep your energy, although you did not use up a lot of calories in the stress situation.
This will make you feel very, very hungry. Your body will continue producing cortisol as often as you happen to be in a stressful situation. Unfortunately, few of us will eat vegetables or fruits at this moment. We overeat with sweets, chocolate, salty and greasy foods because they would stimulate the brain to produce hormones of pleasure and therefore to reduce tension.
Stress Makes Us Hungry - As time goes by people become addicted to the nice effect of this kind of food and every time they get angry they turn to foods that make them gain weight.
When the body throws out the cortisol, the production of testosterone (a hormone that builds muscles) decreases. Over time, this reduction causes a decrease in muscle mass, so no matter how much you train – you waste very few calories.
In spite of many other things, cortisol makes your body produce some fat storage, especially visceral fat, which is very dangerous and accumulates around the organs. It releases butyric acids into your bloodstream, increasing insulin and cholesterol and causes heart problems and diabetes.
Stress makes us hungry
However, there is no way to stop being angry or stressed because you cannot make your body listen to you during nerve bursts. What you can do however is to start eating healthier in order to prevent your body from gaining weight because of the stress.
Stress Makes Us Hungry
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