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New studies show that stress not only makes you gain weight, but it affects what you eat and even where you pack on those extra pounds. What you can do to stop it. Does emotional stress make you fatter or thinner? Both. It appears that short-term, acute stresses may help you lose weight, whereas chronic stresses cause you to put on pounds, especially around your belly, where it’s most harmful.
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Neuropeptide Y acts directly in the periphery on fat tissue and mediates stress-induced obesity and metabolic syndrome
Nature Medicine 2007
Prospective Effect of Job Strain on General and Central Obesity in the Whitehall II Study
American Journal of Epidemiology 2007 165(7):828-837
Depression and anxiety symptoms in relation to anthropometry and metabolism in men
Psychiatry Res. 2002 Oct 10;112(2):101-10
The Influence of Incidental Affect on Consumers’ Food Intake
Journal of Marketing 1007 (7): 194-206
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