What are the effects of stress in our life?

One of the most underestimated is undoubtedly the one we most easily notice on our body, namely the flab.
In fact, stress makes you fat, especially after the “door” and in an interesting article published in La Repubblica , Professor Giorgio Calabrese, dietician and promulgator of the Mediterranean diet, explains why stress leads us to have more body fat, and gives useful tips for combating stress with diet.

The topic of Professor Calabrese’s anti-stress diet is the basis of his recent book, Stress and Diet .

Let’s see the main reasons why stress makes you fat, and the main dietary indications for doing an anti-stress diet according to Dr. Calabrese.

ANTI-STRESS DIET: THE REASONS WHY STRESS MAKES YOU FAT

• • Blood glucose values ​​take longer to return to normal.
    While in a person who does not suffer from stress, the blood sugar levels after a meal return to normal within a short time (about half an hour), in a stressed person, these times are lengthened by six times. That is, it takes a stressed person three hours for their blood sugar levels to return to normal after a meal.
  • The pancreas produces more insulin.
    As a result of the first point, the pancreas secretes more insulin to counteract the effects of high blood sugar. That’s why stress can cause insulin resistance for a long time.
  • If you are stressed, you eat more.
    This is due to the production of the neuropeptide hormone Y, which affects our appetite. It has been seen that under stress the production of this hormone increases, making us eat more.
  • When you sleep less, your appetite increases by twenty percent.
  • Increased stress leads to an increase in body weight.
    People who have a higher production of cortisol are often overweight or obese: particularly in the abdominal area.
    For stressed people, Dr. Calabrese recommends an anti-stress diet. Let’s see it on page two. ( CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO )