As shown in a report in the American Journal of Epidemiology, stressing out can cause people to increase in weight. It is thought that this analysis is one of the first of its sort to examine at the relationship between weight increase and different types of stress. It examined different types of stress that included job-related demands, difficulty paying bills, tense family relationships, depression or anxiety disorder.
“Today’s economy is stressing people out, and stress has been linked to a number of illnesses – such as heart disease, high blood pressure and increased risk for cancer. This study shows that stress is also linked to weight gain” as described by Jason Block, M.D., M.P.H.. Dr Block is the individual that directed the research as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health … Society Scholar at Harvard University. Block practices internal medicine at Brigham … Woman’s Hospital and is on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School/Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
The research points out that women’s waistlines are affected by a number of types of stress. As discovered in the study, “Psychosocial Stress and Change in Weight Among U.S. Adults.” Along with weight gain affiliated with money troubles or a difficult job, women also added pounds when confronting strained family relationships and feeling restricted by life’s conditions.
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