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1. • • Stress causes hormonal changes that can increase blood sugar levels and blood insulin levels, causing people to crave foods high in calories, fat, and sugar. Stress can also disrupt levels of other hormones involved in hunger and satiety and can impair cognitive processes such as self-regulation. All these factors can result in weight gain.
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     Stress and weight gain: The connection and how to manage it

2. www.health.harvard.edu › staying-healthy › whyWhy stress causes people to overeat - Harvard Health

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   Feb 15, 2021 · Stress also seems to affect food preferences. Numerous studies — granted, many of them in animals — have shown that physical or emotional distress increases the intake of food high in fat, sugar, or both. High cortisol levels, in combination with high insulin levels, may be responsible.

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3. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › articles › PMC5373497Stress, cortisol, and other appetite-related hormones ...

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   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.

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5. health.clevelandclinic.org › stress-and-weight-gainCan Stress Make You Gain Weight? - Cleveland Clinic Health ...

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   Mar 1, 2023 · The link between stress and weight gain is real. Those elevated cortisol levels circulating in your body lower your metabolism and encourage cravings for fat and sugars.

6. www.medicalnewstoday.com › stress-and-weight-gainStress and weight gain: The connection and how to manage it

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   Aug 29, 2023 · A 2022 review explains that stress can cause weight gain in the following ways: by interfering with cognitive processes such as self-regulation. by increasing levels of hormones and...

7. www.eatingwell.com › does-stress-cause-weight-gainDoes Stress Cause Weight Gain? Here’s What Dietitians Say

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   May 26, 2024 · “Chronic stress can wreak havoc on health, contributing to weight gain and elevated blood sugar. Stress also affects our ability to manage food cravings,” says Lauren Harris-Pincus, M.S., RDN , founder of NutritionStarringYOU.com and author of The Everything Easy Pre-Diabetes Cookbook .

8. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › articles › PMC4214609Stress and Eating Behaviors - PMC - PubMed Central (PMC)

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   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.

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   Does stress affect food cravings?

   • Little is known about the interactions between stress and appetite-related hormones, though it has been hypothesized that the effects of cortisol and stress may potentiate the rewarding value of food and increase food cravings, similar to the effects of stress on cravings in substance use disorders.

   Stress, cortisol, and other appetite-related hormones: Prospective

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   Do food cravings affect weight status?

   • The effects of food cravings on weight status may be subtle and take a longer duration of time to manifest. In this sample recruited from the community, 49.9% of participants gained weight over the 6 months and the average weight gain was 3.5±3.2 kgs.

   Stress, cortisol, and other appetite-related hormones: Prospective

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   How does stress affect weight gain?

   • However, few studies have prospectively examined how these factors are related to weight gain. Stress, a real or perceived disruption in homeostasis, influences eating behaviors and food choices. The effects of stress differ based on the type and duration of stressor.

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   How does stress affect a person's eating habits?

   • In humans, a recent large-scale study reported that stress was related to various indices of increased drive to eat, including disinhibited eating, binge eating, and more frequent intake of hyperpalatable food (e.g., chips, hamburgers, and soda); additionally, greater stress exposure accounted for significantly higher rigid restraint 47.

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   How does a high-fat diet affect craving?

   • Increased drug taking and high-fat diets alter CRF, GC, and noradrenergic activity to increase sensitization of reward pathways (including within the VTA, NAcc, dorsal striatum, and the medial prefrontal cortex regions), which in turn influences preference for addictive substance and hyperpalatable foods and increases craving and intake 48.

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10. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov › articles › PMC6186388Food cravings mediate the relationship between chronic stress ...

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    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.