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Is Stress Making You Fat?
How to Break the Stress-Fat Connection and Heal Your Life
Karen Wolfe, MD
Chronically elevated levels of stress hormones not
only stimulate appetite, but also encourage intra-abdominal fat
storage that can lead to serious illness. How you respond to and
cope with stress affects your appetite, body composition and
overall fitness level. After the age of forty, the accrued
stresses of a lifetime and declining metabolism begin to take a
physical toll on the human body and soul. This presentation will
look at the science behind stress and fat, the role of cortisol
in refueling appetite, and Syndromes X and W. |
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