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How Stress Affect Body Weight

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It is common to experience slight variations in body weight, without straying too far from what it means to make tables and standards. However, some changes manifest are out of limits, a situation that usually is associated with the consumption of food, not organic abnormality or mental.

Surely you would agree with the assessment that there are different ways of eating, for example, which does it for pleasure, self-regulated selectively and is rated gourmet or hedonistic, while people who eat food out of control, choice and satisfaction usually identified as "compulsive overeaters." Importantly, latter generally channel their anxiety and stress to food, learned behavior throughout his life.

To understand this situation we consider that humans from birth is linked to mother by food, later during the preschool years, is beginning to reward the guy treats if he behaves himself, meets with their homework and keep toys, action caused to be generated in the least the idea that any need support or reward must be met by the food.

Of course, there is also another side of the coin, as there are individuals who when they are stressed, anxious or depressed stop eating because food provokes disgust, which can cause in a few days to lose up to 5 kilograms. Either two extremes has negative consequences for health, especially if the person has diabetes mellitus (condition characterized by high glucose levels or blood sugar) and compulsively feed or quit because on the one hand, overfeeding increases so important blood glucose and, secondly, the lack of food reduces (A condition known as hypoglycemia). Also, the problem can lead equally in the absence of nutrients or obesity, the latter being important risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease (those heart and circulatory system damage), severe joint discomfort, difficulty breathing and low self-esteem.

Tension:
It is clear therefore that the factors that influence in the form of feed is the stress, a condition that all suffer and that is always mentioned but do we know what is and how it generates? Science states that the process is characterized by excessive activity (over activation) in the functions of the nervous, endocrine (hormonal response associated) and immune (Related to the body's defenses), as well as so-called complementary systems, such as the sympathetic (in charge of mobilizing the energy reserves in states of emergency) and parasympathetic (Whose function is to preserve and store these stockpiles).

For its part, forcing the body to over activation consume energy to deal with potential dangers, when hormones that play crucial role, for example, adrenaline is responsible for increasing heart rate and respiration for the purpose to send more blood to the brain and muscles, which facilitates ability to think and be active, while the call hydrocortisone helps mobilize energy reserves.

This generates body wear, requiring the involvement of the parasympathetic system, in order to restore and store energy as an example of what happened before we with the digestion process, which stops during the action friendly system for blood, which normally supplies the stomach, is distributed by the muscles. For this reason, many scholars called attention to the risks of stress-causing agents prolonged or repeated, it does not allow the body to replace.

Solutions
Undoubtedly, over time, the food has obtained multiple symbolic connotations, usually associated with times of celebration, pleasure, pleasure, satisfaction and well-being, in this context, many people feel that not only nourish your body, but they do the same with your soul because they instilled this idea from age early. For this reason, when faced with situations that cause stress, anxiety or distress offset such dissatisfaction eating, otherwise, which was not taught to give as much value to food, obviously not going to use them as satisfying in times of stress.

In these cases it is essential that the patient detected those factors that cause you stress and analyze their eating behavior, which is intended to achieve control of both. If you can not do it for himself, must make use of psychological therapy to provide support, route to handle this type of behavior, increase self-esteem and raise awareness about their eating. Later it will be necessary to channel their anxieties towards practice activity find it pleasant and relaxing, such as exercise or attend classes of painting, dancing, aerobic or photography.

Finally, note that those affected have able to handle stress are not free of relapse, but is essential to understand that this is part of the adaptation process it also allowed easy identification of the moments of crisis in order to control them quickly.




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