Your belly has an ample supply of blood vessels and cortisol receptors to make the whole process flow more efficiently. The downside is that excess belly fat is unhealthy and difficult to get rid of. The fat releases chemicals triggering inflammation, which increases the likel...
"You're constantly bathed in stress hormones like cortisol," Kirsch said, which can have a barrage of negative effects, including suppressed thyroid, blood-sugar imbalance, higher blood pressure, lower immunity, loss of libido – and even belly fat! What's more, Kirsch said, when you get di...
The connection between stress and weight loss has become more and more understood over recent years. It used to be believed that weight loss was simply about calories in, calories out, a simple equation between how much food we were putting into our bodies and how much exercise we were expen...
“It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer.” Guess big wo...