How to get rid of the "stress → eat → stress" deadly cycle?

In modern urban life, many unhealthy habits are gradually endangering our health, such as uncontrolled intake of high-calorie greasy food, against the normal pattern of sleep ...... and stress and rhythm disorders are invisibly affecting our body, obesity has also become the most intuitive performance. Some of the current studies on the metabolism have revealed the fact that stress and body rhythm disorders can lead to obesity.

What is stress obesity?

We are commonly known as stress fat, and overworked fat, in fact, these cases, have a common point, which is, obesity under a high-pressure environment, this condition has both men and women, women around 25 years of age, men after 30 years of age more likely to stress fat.

When people grow up, leave school, and enter society, the rapidly changing environment, and the succession of events unknowingly brings pressure on people. Work, marriage, and childcare, all these factors are superimposed on each other, and psychological fluctuations are very easy, so people often feel stressed. For women, the hormonal changes brought about by the biological cycle can exacerbate emotional and psychological problems.

In a "stressful" situation, many people will appear to overeat or lose their appetite. Stressed people, like a tense spring, are in an acute stress response, and this psychological state will produce a chain reaction in which the body's neuro-endocrine system will react through a series of stimuli to cause changes in the body's hormonal balance.

What Causes Stress Fat?

When focusing on people with stress fat and exploring the causes of their fattening, it is easy to see that the biggest reason is their over-reliance on comfort food and their bad habit of overeating. "Eating is the best healing", comfort food refers to those foods that can make people feel soothed or happy, usually high sugar, high fat, or childhood favorites, such as cake, milk tea, barbecue, and so on. When a person is in a state of stress, he or she will unconsciously continue to consume more food, leading to obesity.

The vicious circle brought about by obesity and exertion is also terrible. Due to the influence of stress, the body's cortisol secretion is disrupted, accompanied by metabolic problems, and under the superimposed negative effects, it will again intensify the stress response, which is why it is easy to grow positively once you become fat, and the more tired you are, the fatter you eat. Specifically, the rise of stress hormones, especially glucocorticoids, directly leads to the "appetite" of people, and its secretion is like opening the gate of "eat more if you want to eat", which greatly increases the demand for carbohydrates, fats and other energy-supplying substances. The demand for carbohydrates and fats is greatly increased.

But this is an incorrect signal, it disrupts the body's energy demand-consumption balance, which can easily lead to overeating, which in turn leads to fat gain, weight gain, and becoming a member of the stress fat crowd. A team of scientists from Cornell University noted: "Chronic release or disruption of the release cycle of the stress hormone glucocorticoid can trigger a series of metabolic problems. For example, increasing the growth of fat cells and insulin production, which can enhance the body's absorption of sugar in the blood."

For the majority of modern urban population, sedentary is also a "stress obesity" causative factor. Staying still in your seat for a long time is one of the globally recognized harmful lifestyles. Long-term sitting posture is a full range of hazards: body blood circulation and respiratory gas exchange are slowed down, and the metabolic rate is reduced. Long-term incorrect sitting posture can also cause skeletal muscle damage to the cervical spine, lumbar spine disorders, neck muscle strain, lower back pain, and other urban white-collar occupational disease is represented. The lack of exercise when sitting, after sitting only want to lie flat, so, obesity naturally finds the door.

How do rhythm disorders make the body fat?

A recent paper published in Cell Reports looks at the relationship between rhythms and obesity. The team found that just as the sun rises and sets, the cells inside our bodies follow a strict rhythmical clock. For example, when there are no significant fluctuations in circadian rhythms, fat precursor cells respond to signals that trigger adipocyte proliferation (which occurs primarily at night). This means that when we artificially break this rhythm, staying up late at night and sleeping in the morning, the transition does not take place smoothly, the fat tends to accumulate excessively, and the person's mood is affected negatively.

As you can see, controlling weight, maintaining a good mood, and follow a normal rhythm of life and resting are extremely important. Many people who are under long-term high pressure have problems with sleep disorders, which are caused by a constant state of sympathetic excitement. In turn, lack of sleep affects will normal metabolism, which exacerbates the energy supply-consumption imbalance, bringing a sense of exhaustion and the inability to engage in sports and burn fat.

How to avoid stress and rhythm disorders caused by obesity

Faced with the problem of obesity caused by stress and rhythm disorders, "managing stress" is naturally the priority. Under the concept of "stress is power", we should face stress correctly, learn to adjust our emotions, and try to avoid getting into an emotional quagmire. At the same time, do not "stress into appetite", regardless of the intake of high carbohydrates, try to consume more protein, healthy fats, fruits, vegetables, non-gluten grains, etc.

Of course, effective exercise is also not missing. Low to moderate-intensity aerobic exercises (running, swimming, etc.) are suitable to balance hormones and boost metabolism, while enhancing immune system function, slowing down aging, and helping to sleep better.

Last but not least, get a good night's sleep. Adequate sleep not only reduces the prevalence of cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction and cerebral hemorrhage but also helps keep you in shape.

When "stress fat" has become a common problem of modern people, when rhythm disorders become the state of many people, when obesity has become an issue of great concern to the public, how to return to a healthy life, maintain a good state of mind, worth thinking about.