Stress, dietary patterns and cardiovascular disease: a mini-review

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Chronic stress exposure may affect the brain’s response to high calorie food cues and predispose to obesogenic eating habits

This 2013 study assessed whether chronic stress influences activation in reward, motivation and execution brain regions by performing functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on 30 women while they viewed pictures of high-calorie and low-calorie foods. On separate lab visits, food consumption from a snack food buffet in addition to circulating cortisol levels were examined. The […]

The effects of mental stress on non-insulin-dependent diabetes: Determining the relationship between catecholamine and adrenergic signals from stress, anxiety, and depression on the physiological changes in the pancreatic hormone secretion

Since high levels of anxiety causes the release of sympathetic hormones that can decrease insulin secretion and even elevate cortisol and glucose levels, as well as possibly modulate the sensitivity of the insulin hormone, this 2019 review explored how stress and anxiety can affect type II diabetes by evaluating 3 research articles. The participants of […]