Getting regular exercise and sufficient
sleep and incorporating meditation and relaxation and breathing techniques into
your daily routine could help you avoid up to 11 pounds per year! These routine practices can help you deal
with the daily stressors you encounter which may be having an effect on your
daily metabolic rate. We all know that
we tend to binge eat and gain weight when we are stressed. The subsequent weight gain is much more
complex than just packing on extra calories.
A study at Ohio State found that you
actually burn fewer calories when eating under stress than someone who eats the
exact same thing but isn't stressed out. A group of 58 women, average age 53,
participated in the study. They were provided with three standardized meals.
The test meal provided 930 calories, including 60 grams of fat, and consisted
of eggs, turkey sausage, biscuits and gravy, the caloric equivalent of a fast
food meal of a two-patty burger and an order of fries. They were asked to fast
for 12 hours before they returned to the Clinical Research Center. They then
reported on any stress they had encountered in the past 24 hours. After the
standardized meal, measurements of the women's metabolic rate (how fast they
burned the calories) showed that the participants who reported the most stress
burned 104 fewer calories than the others.
This study simply confirms the importance of stress management as a main
pillar of health in your lifestyle.
Keicolt Gaser, Janice et al. Daily Stressors, Past Depression, and
Metabolic Responses to High Fat Meals: A
Novel Path to Obesity. Biological
Psychiatry. Published online July 13th,
2014. In Press.
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