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Overweight and Stressed
Did you know that just being overweight makes stress magnified in your body?
If you’re overweight, your system’s already compromised, so your body’s physical reaction to chronic stress becomes magnified. That reaction threatens your health much more than it would if you were at a healthy weight.
Researchers now can assess how increased weight and excess body fat, which cause systemic inflammation, interact with negative responses to repeated stressors: They super-boost levels of the inflammatory hormone cortisol and the cytokine plasma interleukin-6 (IL-6). That’s more than double trouble. In other words, if you’re obese, you triple your chances of having a heart attack from reacting negatively to chronic stressors.
The solution is a short-term shift in how you respond to stress paired with a long-term plan to lose weight, unplug your stress response and get happy!
Short term: As a stop-your-stress-response-now solution, when you feel overwhelmed, take a step back and breathe slowly and deeply. It may sound simple, but it helps you feel in control and calm.
Long range: It’s time to upgrade your lifestyle so that you eat nine servings of fruits and veggies a day; eliminate all red meat, added sugars and syrups, and processed grains from your plate; and drink plenty of water (never soda) daily.
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