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Stress, Obesity and Our Children: What Mind-Body Research Says

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Since February, Michelle Obama has focused our national attention on ways to end childhood obesity.

Why the single-minded attention on this one topic?

Because we are killing our kids.

That may sound overly dramatic, but in reality, that is what’s happening in the long-term.

New research is being published every day about the serious health issues caused by obesity.

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One of my favorite researchers, Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, PhD, from Ohio State University, recently published one such paper in the Psychosomatic Medicine Journal of Biobehavioral Medicine.

In her article, “Stress, food, and Inflammation: psychoneuroimmunology and nutrition at the cutting edge,” Dr. Kiecolt-Glaser proposes that inflammation is directly affected by our behavior, such as eating habits, emotions, and stress.

Our lifestyle choices can create direct routes to conditions like inflammation. Even more recently, information linking psychoneuroimmunology and depression with stress and obesity has surfaced.

It has always been evident that our stress levels could be connected with our food intake, now there are mechanistic and behavior studies that link dietary factors to inflammation. As you know, inflammation is frequently implicated as a risk factor in many of the leading causes of death.

Recognizing that depression, stress, and a poor diet can cause or enhance inflammation should be important to all practitioners – especially psychotherapists.

Psychoneuroimmunology is pivotal in this.

NICABM’s Mind/Body Courses focuses on emotional, neurological, and immunological interconnections that can give your treatments a new direction.

In developing this series, we used as case studies some of the conditions that best illustrate the interplay of these complex interactions – what can develop when balance is interrupted.

Even if these conditions are often outside your regular practice, they could be damaging your patients.

And that could make any of your treatments less likely to succeed.

Here’s a link to check out NICABM’s Mind/Body Courses.

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  11. Natalie Sadler, MD says

    It does not surprise me that there is a correlation between depression, stress and inflammation. I am a holistic psychiatrist and see it in my overweight patients. I work with them on their diet and exercise. A recent article in the American Journal of Psychiatry March 2010 found a profound correlation to diet, depression and anxiety and the number of mental illness symptoms. I think that you will find the diets for good health very similar.
    Jacka FN, Pasco JA, Mykletun A, Williams LJ, Hodge AM, O’Reilly SL, Nicholson GC, Kotowicz MA, Berk M: “Association of Western and Traditional Diets with Depression and Anxiety in Women”. Am J Psychiatry 2010; 167:305–311

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      Jacka FN, Pasco JA, Mykletun A, Williams LJ, Hodge AM, O’Reilly SL, Nicholson GC, Kotowicz MA, Berk M: “Association of Western and Traditional Diets with Depression and Anxiety in Women”. Am J Psychiatry 2010; 167:305–311

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