Stress, Cortisol and Weight Loss

[From article]
They found that women who reported having one or more worries burned an average of 104 fewer calories in the seven hours after eating the meal than those who had none. Over a 12-month period this could lead to a weight gain of 11lb or 5kg.
The stressed women also had higher levels of insulin, which contributes to the storage of fat. To make matters worse, the authors say those who are stressed would be more likely to eat high-fat, comfort food.
Lead researcher Jan Kiecolt-Glaser, professor of psychiatry and psychology at Ohio State University, said: ‘This means that, over time, stressors could lead to weight gain.
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The researchers do not know what happens to men’s metabolism and body weight when they are stressed.
They suspect the findings would be slightly different because they have more muscle, which means their metabolism is different. Other studies have found that stress causes us to eat more – particularly sugary, high fat foods. Experts say this the body’s natural response to a threat.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2690965/How-stress-make-woman-pile-pounds-It-slows-metabolism-add-stone-just-year.html

How stress can make a woman pile on pounds: It slows down the metabolism and
could add up to a stone in just a year
Worrying could mean you will burn off 100 fewer calories a day
Researchers do not know what happens to men’s metabolism and body weight when they are stressed.
They suspect the findings would be slightly different because they have more muscle
By SOPHIE BORLAND
PUBLISHED: 23:15 EST, 13 July 2014 | UPDATED: 03:14 EST, 15 July 2014


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The study, which has been published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, showed that it was 'low responders' who would adjust their eating habits and reduce their food consumption while plagued with stress, as well as increasing their physical activity.
'High responders', would instead continue with their regular eating habits and exercise would not have a great effect on their muscles, leading to rapid weight gain.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2697935/Is-secret-curing-obesity-The-bodys-response-STRESS-could.html

Relax, researchers may have found the key to weight loss... The body's response to STRESS could determine how effectively we lose weight
How our bodies respond to the release of stress hormone cortisol determines how well we lose weight
Low responders are more likely to eat less and increase physical activity when stressed
High responders begin to eat more while their muscles become slower at burning energy
By LILLIAN RADULOVA
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 18:39 EST, 18 July 2014 | UPDATED: 21:24 EST, 18 July 2014

City Government Medicalizes Social Problems

The Nazi government imposed restrictions on freedom using health as the justification. Jews were vermin and needed to be eliminated. Medicalizing social problems takes away freedom and Due Process Rights. There are no appeals from a medical diagnosis. Medical professionals especially the omniscient and morally superior psychiatric priest class seldom have any Constitutional knowledge or concern about laws that restrict their behavior. Scoundrels will use any justification in the name of good to do evil. This is one of many misguided government bodies who know no shame and lack common sense. It is one small step in the government assistance of the suicide of the nation. Notice that the business community is being consulted by the smartest elected officials in the city but ignore the will of taxpayers and voters.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/1/29/council-soda-ban/

City Council Discusses Soda Ban, Domestic Violence Campaign
By SONALI Y. SALGADO,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
January 29, 2013

Irregular Sleep Patterns Cause Obesity

Is this one effect of the creepy crawly criminals in Cambridge MA at Harvard University who disturb my sleep for 20 years?

[From article]
Scientists believe disruption to the crucial routine of sleeping and eating can make us fat.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2195540/Disrupting-body-clock-makes-obese.html#ixzz24zljyxUX

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2195540/Disrupting-body-clock-makes-obese.html

Disrupting your body clock 'can make you obese': The cycle of sleeping, waking and digesting affects hormones controlling metabolism
By TAMARA COHEN
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 18:04 EST, 29 August 2012 | UPDATED: 18:04 EST, 29 August 2012

Sleep Aids Weight Loss

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2137631/Want-lose-weight-Get-sleep-Resting-longer-suppresses-obesity-gene.html

Want to lose weight? Get more sleep: Resting for longer suppresses the obesity gene
By ROSIE TAYLOR
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 23:00 EST, 30 April 2012 | UPDATED: 23:01 EST, 30 April 2012

Corn Syrup Adds to Obesity

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"Today, subsidies to crops such as corn total $19 billion a year. Corn subsidies total more than $8 billion a year.
[. . .]
High-fructose corn syrup accounts for 81 percent of the calories added to the diet of the average American in recent decades; US consumption of the substance rose 120 percent from 1991 to 2000. More significantly, it rose more than 1,000 percent from 1970 to 1990, far exceeding the changes in intake of any other food or food group. Over the same period, the average American's caloric intake increased by 600 calories daily."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_feds_fat_factory_qtNUjL8s8xnhJgmjgVdjGO

The feds' fat factory
Cheap corn = corpulent kids
By PATRICK BASHAM
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:23 AM, December 15, 2010
Posted: 10:45 PM, December 14, 2010

Obesity Causes Hunger Causes Obesity

Obesity Causes Hunger Causes Obesity
[This letter was published in the New York Post]

It seems as if the public relations industry promotes crises to benefit the human services industry. ("GOTHAM'S LATEST NON-CRISIS," Editorial, New York Post, December 30, 2006) OMG there is hunger. We need more social workers. OMG there is obesity. We need more counselors.
The Wizard of Oz convinced the Mayor of New York (a potential candidate for president?) to fight obesity and hunger at the same time. Does it get any better than this? It's not just the legislature that gets so many contributions from the human services corporations.

Roy Bercaw, Editor
ENOUGH ROOM
Cambridge MA USA

GOTHAM'S LATEST NON-CRISIS
Editorial New York Post
December 30, 2006
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Food-pantry photo-ops are a holiday cliché for most politicians - and certainly there has been no shortage of such officials around town lately, helping hand out food to poor folks. But surely they know quite well - or they should - that there is no hunger crisis in New York City. None whatsoever.
Now, rank-and-file New Yorkers can be forgiven for thinking otherwise, given the messages from City Hall these days. For starters, outgoing Human Resources Administration Commissioner Verna Eggleston, for the time being the city's top welfare official, recently bemoaned the fact that many HRA employees used soup kitchens and food stamps.
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