Stress Relief, Health and Wellness Blog

What Causes Emotional Eating? Emotional eating has many causes. The following are some of the main reasons – besides hunger – that stressed people eat: Cortisol Cravings: Stress can bring on increased levels of cortisol, known as “the stress hormone.” Cortisol has a beneficial function in the body, but excessive levels of cortisol brought on [...]

Biking minutes a day may ward off weight gain http://www.stressmarket.com/blog/wp-admin/post-new.php (Health.com) — Biking for as little as five minutes a day can help women minimize weight gain as they enter middle age, especially if they’re overweight to begin with, a new study suggests. The study followed more than 18,000 premenopausal women between the ages of [...]

// How can I break my sugar addiction? There is no doubt that this kind of eating arises from an emotional component. In addition to stimulating brain reward centers, sweet food markedly affects stress hormones in ways likely to provide a sense of temporary reprieve from anxiety. Of course, in addition to all the health [...]

// Heart disease to kill 400,000 in U.S. in 2010 LONDON – Decades of progress in the United States on cutting cholesterol, blood pressure and smoking are being stalled by rising obesity rates, and heart disease will kill around 400,000 Americans this year, experts said on Monday. A study by British scientists found that around [...]

// Being Fat Goes Global It’s not just Americans anymore; the whole world is becoming obese, and we have more than just the advent of cheap cheeseburgers to blame. Two years ago, when Barry Popkin announced that more than a billion people worldwide were overweight—easily outnumbering the 800 million who were malnourished—folks looked up from [...]

// Does Stress Make You Fat? (Does Fat Make You Stressed?) So maybe it’s that activities like yoga, meditation, running — anything that focuses your mind and alters your breathing to a deeper, more regular pattern — cause a domino effect throughout the body that includes throwing a wrench in that fat-cell-receptor response that caused [...]

Lean times mean tighter pants for stress eaters Excess worries and time weighing on many Americans Leslie Fuller tried to stick to her shopping list on a recent grocery run. Instead, she found herself venturing down the candy aisle, throwing bags of Hershey’s Miniatures and M&M’s into her cart. “I should just put them down [...]