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Chronic Stress, Poor Diet May Up Metabolic Risk

For the first time in humans, a small study has shown that chronically stressed women whose diet contains high-fat and high-sugar foods are more vulnerable than low-stressed women who eat the same foods to metabolic health risks, including abdominal fat and insulin resistance.

If the association is confirmed in interventional studies, the finding suggests that increasing stress-resilience skills might improve on interventions to treat metabolic syndrome and obesity, which have reached epidemic proportions.

“In order for scientists and doctors to give the public better and more reliable answers about what they can do about their stress, we need support for this kind of research — how stress and resilience training affects biology,” first author Kirstin Aschbacher, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) told Medscape Medical News.