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Fretting about finding the perfect Mother's Day present could make you pile on extra kilos. A nine-year study published in the Journal of Epidermiology found that financial strain is one of the top reasons for weight gain, especially in people who are overweight. The likely reason? Levels of the stress hormone cortisol,which is linked to increased cravings and hungger, may shoot up faster and stay elevated longer in those who are overweight, says study co-autor dr Jason Block.Save your sanity(and your waistline)-make he card this year.
Fretting about finding the perfect Mother's Day present could make you pile on extra kilos. A nine-year study published in the Journal of Epidermiology found that financial strain is one of the top reasons for weight gain, especially in people who are overweight. The likely reason? Levels of the stress hormone cortisol,which is linked to increased cravings and hungger, may shoot up faster and stay elevated longer in those who are overweight, says study co-autor dr Jason Block.Save your sanity(and your waistline)-make he card this year.
