Why stress makes you fat?

byNona Wank

There are many people who have been driven by the hard-to-resist desire to "eat carbohydrates" such as "want to eat donuts" "want to eat ramen" "beef bowl ......" Although it is a well-known fact that "stress" can be cited as one cause of becoming fat, how does it work? As a result, a human body experiment was conducted by a doctor on the BBC program.

Why stress makes you fat - BBC News
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He is a geneticist at the University of CambridgeGiles YeoProfessor UK television program "Trust Me, I 'm a Doctor"In collaboration with researchers at the University of Leeds, we conducted some experiments using our own bodies.

Professor Yeo did what is called the Maastricht stress test.(PDF file)This test"Alternate trial of cold pressure stress generated through advanced thermal stimulation device and mental arithmetic task" is made up of a preparation period of 5 minutes and an acute stress period of 10 minutes. During the experiment, Professor Yeo sitting in front of the computer and doing subtraction, then putting hands in the cold water and holding it in there for a while. Before and after the experiment, the research team at Reed University measured the blood glucose level of Professor Yeo.

The blood sugar level of a healthy person usually returns to normal value immediately after rising after a meal. However, on the day that stress was given to Professor Yeo on the experiment, it took 1 hour to return to the original blood sugar level. This is about 6 times longer than the day when stress was not given.

Professor Yeo's body showed such a reaction is that the body was exposed to stressFight or run away or reactBecause it became the state of. When thinking that our body is "being attacked", we release glucose in the blood and try to deliver energy to the muscle. However, in fact, if energy to escape from enemies is unnecessary, the pancreas should return to the blood sugar level,InsulinIt secretes. And when the insulin level rises and the blood glucose level drops sharply, people feel hungry. This is the mechanism that people want to eat carbohydrates when exposed to stress.

byTaylor Kiser

The same phenomenon occurs even when the sleeping state is bad. The research team of King's College London announcedNew researchAccording to people with insufficient sleep, they take an extra calorie of 385 kcal on average compared with normal time.McDonald'sBecause sausage muffin is 388 kcal, and shrimp flea is 401 kcal, it is an image of taking as much light as one serving.

Although it is small-sizedIn another studyIn addition to omitting the nap time by collecting 3 to 4 year old children who are taking a nap all the time, when we made bedtime two hours later than usual, the next day children are 20% more than usual Calorie intake has been shown to have been taken. At this time, the children said they took more sugar and carbohydrates. After that, the children took a good sleep, but it was recorded that 14% extra calorie intake was done even on the following days.

byBecca Tarter

Because sleep deprivation is one of the stresses, it is important to take a good sleep first so as not to take extra calories. In addition to this, "laughing" "touching nature" "flirting with someone" as a way of reducing stressFrom past researchIt is obvious.