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Stress overriding the brain’s lateral habenula
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- Chronic stress coupled with a high-calorie diet leads to overeating and increased cravings for sweet, palatable food, contributing to weight gain. This is due to stress overriding the brain’s lateral habenula, a region that typically dampens the reward signals associated with eating.
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Feb 15, 2021 · Stress eating can ruin your weight loss goals – the key is to find ways to relieve stress without overeating. There is much truth behind the phrase "stress eating." Stress, the hormones it unleashes, and the effects of high-fat, sugary "comfort foods" push people toward overeating.
- hhp_info@health.harvard.edu
Weight-related adaptions of the metabolic, neuroendocrine, and neuronal pathways can together potentiate food preference, craving and intake under conditions of stress. A sensitized feed-forward process may result in changes that promote elevated desires for and increased consumption of hyperpalatable foods.
These findings are consistent with research that chronic stress may potentiate motivation for rewarding substances and behaviors and indicate that high food cravings may contribute to stress-related weight gain.
May 24, 2021 · Stress leads to detrimental health outcomes through direct biological and indirect behavioural changes. Stress can lead to disruption to normal eating behaviours, although the strength of these associations is unknown.
- Deborah C Hill, Mark Conner, Faye Clancy, Rachael H Moss, Sarah Wilding, Matt Bristow, Daryl B O'Con...
- 2021
To examine whether baseline chronic stress, morning cortisol, and other appetite-related hormones (leptin, ghrelin, and insulin) predict future weight gain and food cravings in a naturalistic longitudinal 6-month follow-up study.
Nov 1, 2024 · For many, stress can trigger intense cravings for certain types of foods. Often these foods are hyperpalatable (i.e., sweet, salty, or greasy). These rich foods can stimulate reward pathways in the brain, providing temporary relief from stress.
Jun 8, 2023 · According to a new study published in the journal Neuron June 8, stress paired with high-calorie ‘comfort’ food results in brain changes that cause more eating, and increase cravings for sweet,...
