As we reported yesterday, overweight people don’t eat enough food … of the right kind.
Similarly, while many may assume that overweight folks are lazy and are not motivated enough, the truth is that they may be too stressed out.
Specifically, stress increases appetite.
And it is well-documented that stress causes people to crave high-fat, high-carbohydrate junk foods which pack on belly fat. For example, the National Academy of Sciences reported in 2003:
[The stress hormone cortisol] (GCs) … increase the salience of pleasurable or compulsive activities (ingesting sucrose, fat, and drugs, or wheel-running). This motivates ingestion of “comfort food.” … GCs act systemically to increase abdominal fat depots…. In stressed or depressed humans chronic stress induces either increased comfort food intake and body weight gain …. We propose that people eat comfort food in an attempt to reduce the activity in the chronic stress-response network with its attendant anxiety. These mechanisms, determined in rats, may explain some of the epidemic of obesity occurring in our society.
And while many would assume that overweight people are lazy and sleep too much, a lack of sleep actually increases obesity. For example, the Chicago Tribune reported last year:
In 1960, Americans averaged 81/2 hours of sleep a night …
Study after study showing that a lack of good quality sleep—seven to nine hours of uninterrupted slumber—is making us fat. And it’s not just overworked adults who are gaining weight. Long-term studies are finding that sleep-deprived children also are piling on the pounds.
“You’re fighting against the tide to lose weight when you’re sleep-deprived,” said Dr. Amy Aronsky, medical director of The Center for Sleep Disorders in Portland, Ore., and a board certified sleep specialist. “Good sleep is as important as a good diet and exercise when it comes to weight loss.”
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Studies have shown that when sleep is restricted, the hormone ghrelin increases and the hormone leptin decreases. Ghrelin tells our brain that we’re hungry, while leptin tells it we’ve eaten enough.
Average leptin levels decreased 18 percent when sleep was restricted to four hours per night over two nights, according to a study published in the journal Sleep Medicine by Dr. Eve Van Cauter, Average ghrelin levels increased 28 percent when sleep was restricted.
In other words, when we don’t get enough sleep we feel hungry, even if we’ve eaten enough.
In another Van Cauter study, healthy young volunteers showed signs of prediabetes when they were restricted to four hours of sleep for six nights in a row.
The stress hormone cortisol also surges when we’re sleep-deprived. When that happens, we crave high-fat, high-carbohydrate foods (“comfort foods”) to increase our serotonin levels to calm down, said Dr. Michael Breus, author of “The Sleep Doctor’s Diet Plan.”
Other studies consistently show that adults sleeping fewer than six hours a night increase their likelihood for becoming overweight or obese — even when exercising and eating right, Decker said. Among adults ages 32 to 49, those averaging five hours of sleep were twice as likely to be obese after nine years compared with those averaging seven hours.
The news for kids is just as alarming. A study of 8,234 children (starting at age 38 weeks) found that the odds of being obese by age 7 increased 50 percent for children averaging fewer than 101/2 hours of sleep. Another study found that 58 percent of obese kids averaged fewer than eight hours of sleep, while just 11 percent of non-obese kids averaged fewer than eight hours of sleep.
In addition, numerous studies show that melatonin reduces body weight and burns fat. Our body produces melatonin when it is dark. If we don’t get enough sleep, it means the light is on too much, and our body can’t produce enough melatonin.
Finally, reducing stress and getting enough sleep gives people extra energy to exercise. On other other hand, if people are stressed out and sleep deprived, they’ll be focused on just getting through the day, and will thus be less likely to exercise.
Of course, exercise is a powerful stress-reducer and cure for insomnia … so it goes both ways.
Thought you might appreciate this--
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/news/20120402p2a00m0na002000c.html
I subscribe to numerous news feed and news aggregators. The recent series of earthquakes and new concerns about Spent Fuel Pool #4 are alarming.
On the bright side, the new sarcophagus for Chernobyl will be done in 2015...if it is on schedule after being a decade behind...only took about 30 years...
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Work_on_new_Chernobyl_sarcophagus_to_s...
Unfortunately, I don't think we have that kind of timeline on Fukushima.
I got a little tired of analyzing it so here is the epitaph aphorism (until something breaks):
Spray and pray 'til the end of days.
That's awesome! Mr. Banzai, you are without doubt the funniest satirical artist of all time!
GW,If you think cortisol is bad you should not look at feedlot beef production.Do not look into stuffing cattle with .gov subsidized GMO corn that costs 50 cents a bushel less than it's growing costs due to subsidies.Don't look into the anti gas medication, the antibiotics or feedlot bloat.Or the hormones.Or the use of arsenic in chicken feed.
I am getting to know small local farmers...because the FDA has sold out to the corporations to such a degree that our food is becoming dangerous.
Don't look into this GW.Or your food will suddenly get more expensive and hard to obtain.
Ignorance is bliss, never-mind the 8 year old girls developing breasts and other minor danger signs.
PS.Don't investigate glyphosphate levels in city dwellers either.
/sarc/
Great stuff GW.
caution, don't get to know small local farmers, FDA says that's insurgent-speak for domestic terrorist networks
Have some respect for yourself. It was a jab at you Fatty :(
I see you had to have your comprehension of irony removed when you emigrated.
Brilliant!
Since we all seem to be airing pet theories, let me add this one:
http://www.salon.com/2000/09/19/fat_germ/
Of course, I didn't believe this at all, then I saw the work of some scientist who plotted out in exacting detail the spread of obesity through the population, and it looked EXACTLY like a pathogen vector working through the population. I thought I saved the article to my hard drive, If I find the link to the article I will post it later.
TY for the link, very interesting
A lot of mean fucks on this site. Guessing they've never taken the bus to two minimum wage jobs where their employer only schedules them for 25 hours a week so they can't get benefits.
Haha! Whose fault is that, loser? Take control of your life and you won't have to be someone's bitch, working 2 PT jobs. PS- its your fault you are fat...don't try blaming others :)
I thought this whole article was written by million dollar bonus.
New yorkers walk. So they are far less obese than non new yorkers.
The most obvious reason for exploding obesity is the rise of the service sector office job where you are litterally sitting down unless youre taking a lunch or snack break. -----------combined with cheap gas.
You can cut obesity in half by two simple things.
Raise gas prices and take away chairs in the workplace (use standing desks)
And the increased metabolism resulting from these changes will decrease peoples appetites as well.
HMMMM, I see whats going on here GW. You're one of these go getter fat boys. You're not lazy, Hell you've got this half assed blog that fills your days, and lots of short bussers polishing your ego every day. But... let me fill you in on a secret... YOU SUCK, and you're not very sharp. It's as if you're brain were covered in a thin buttery film which won't let your ideas erupt on the screen in the way you wish they would.
so says *sharp* Tsukato, it's as if your brain was made of shit, oh mean as if you're brain was made of shit.
What's wrong Suckatoe, you part of main stream news? Can't get more viewers so from frustration you come here to popular blogger.
Best part of the media black out of Ron Paul, Fuckshima, BP oil still killing Gulf, is no one trusts news and losing viewers in huge amounts every day. Lots of people talk about not watching the news anymore. You think it's the righteous thing to stand up for your corporate whores, but we don't need you and you're becoming irrelevant. You are responsible for your own demise.
Wow, Google did a bad job on your translation. I haven't the foggiest notion what the hell you are droning on and on about. Do you?
Shouldn't you be working on how to bury more stories on Ron Paul's popularity. You're falling behind. Oh sorry, your falling behind.
HAHA, good one......WHAT?! Get back on those meds before sthg bad happens buddy :)
Your trolling grows tiresome.
BTW I agree with you 100% that American women are "white, masculin, gutter mouthed, corn fed girls, who most likely have some sorta STD oozin outa their cracks"
I mean you are right, those white genes are repulsive and disgusting, yuck!
But if your white self procreates with your Asian wife/partner, doesn't that mean that your daughters will be by definition, by your definition 50% "white, masculin, gutter mouthed, corn fed girls, who most likely have some sorta STD oozin outa their cracks."
And if you truly feel this way about white women (and who doesn't?) Why tell us, we all agree here, tell your own mother, let her know and get back to us what she said?
I guess drinking every day dosent help much either
The silver lining here will be the abundance of Soylent Green and rendered fat biodiesel. Think positive, people!
I've got an idea to fix fatty: EUGENICS. Being a lard ass is a sure sign of some sort of weakness we don't need passed on in the gene pool. Since americans have become like africans and will fuck a hole in the mud, its up to us as a society to make the hard decisions now. Sterilization for anyone falling under the parameters of obesity.
That's not a very bright idea because if it gets hard to get food again, the people that hold onto weight easier will have the advantage at survival.
#1 Induce coma until thin
#2 Add sunlamp until tan, rested and ready
#3 ?
#4 Profit!
You know sthg funny? I went back to the states in 2005 for a visit, and was amazed at what guys thought was hot. I'm not joking, these girls were close to 140-150 lbs. with muffins sticking out of their overtight t-shirts. Fucking repulsive! I'm not black or latino. Why have white boys sunk so low!?
My 5'11", 155 lb body could snap your manhood and the rest of you like a twig!!! I am not an urbanite though, city living makes you soft.
But then, I consider anyone man under 5'8", 150 lbs, to be too small, almost insignificant, likely not a good provider, and physically replusive!
I think you may qualify....
Sorry, I'm not your type. I'm 6 ft, 185 lbs., and I dig asian chicks that look and act like women. I'm not excited by white, masculin, gutter mouthed, corn fed girls, who most likely have some sorta STD oozin outa their cracks. They're good enough for blacks and mexicans, but as a white boy, I decided long ago that I had had enough of white girls. Cheers baby :)
So your kids will only look half - " white, masculin, gutter mouthed, corn fed girls, who most likely have some sorta STD oozin outa their cracks" and half-"elegant Asian woman who knows how to work with ping pong balls during bedroom sports" ... Asians can be just as bad as anyone else on the planet ... clearly you have a complex, else you would have stepped up to Russian/Ukrainian women by now.
http://www.charismaman.com/CMweb_2.98.jpg
You dig Asian chicks that look like... pubescent ladyboys. Did you come here thinking ZH was a porn tourism website for sick Westerners?
Pubescent Ladyboys? What in the hell are you talking about? Asian women are far superior in every way to our western "sisters", and far cleaner...if you know what I mean ;)
A fatty thread really brings out the
'yes, I'm definately heterosexual!' Wink wink crowd.
Geez
Hoi Suck a Tomato,
It seems the Chinese are thin because they can't afford to eat very much, but not anymore....
"Obesity is becoming serious problem among Chinese youths as the Asian giant prospers and increasingly adopts Western customs and lifestyles."
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/185339/20110722/china-obesity-youth-rising-health-us.htm
By the way, that link is one of hundreds that I found.
I've never seen a Chinese that couldn't afford to eat. Shows how much you know. In addition, I've never in all these years, seen ANY chinese that resemble Walmart shoppers back home. I'm not joking. This is 100% true. Lastly, the funny thing about the loser class in america, is that they still feel superior to the world's underlings like the chinese, but the truth be told, even the peasants have more money than even middle class americans. Most peasant families have at least 200,000 yuan in the bank (about US$32,000) and own their homes outright, and pay no property taxes. They have no liabilities, and live within their means. What is the average american really worth? What do they really own outright? Most americans are walking comedies. Shameless bunch they are.
T-suk is pregnant with insight. U really do have to get outside the Empire to see its true, hideous visage.
Huh? Thank you...Fuck you? Which to choose?
Go with your first instinct ... it's usually the correct one. ;)
Perhaps one of these articles explains the reason...
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20100505/attractive-women-100505/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1270271/Beautiful-women-bad-health-raise-stress-hormones.html
You missed my point. The girls were hideous. Still though, the guys I saw with these pigs, were real insecure, jealous types, but still, far better looking than their she-apes.
"Still though, the guys I saw with these pigs, were real insecure, jealous types, but still, far better looking than their she-apes.
Dude. It's ok. There are plenty of websites where you can meet eligible men, just like you. Stop all the hate and get yourself a date.
Have you seen this?
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/92052/Giant_Elohim_Annunaki_hybi...
Yikes! She's not ugly, and kinda sexy, but Jesus, she'd scare the hell outa me in person :(
Well GW... That is the nice thing about being reduced to a serf population... Like the Russians... Half the vegetable production will be from small private plots and will be required for a food survival source...
The Serf's Diet Shall Improve
And the serfs will be too poor to buy Twinkies and slurpies from 7-11...
You're dreaming! 98% of americans couldn't farm if their fat asses depended on it. It'll never happen. Either the gov. will keep feeding the rabble more and more gm swill, or else they will perish like the dodo. Good riddance!
They will learn to follow directions after a few crop failures and bleak winters.
Soma!
Stress and sleep issues may contribute to unhealthy weight gain but probably not as much as vice-versa.
Suck it up, drop that extra 100lbs. and I think you’ll find you’ve killed three birds with one stone.
Let me know when they find the gene or enzyme that induces cravings for convertibles and blondes because I’m totally an innocent victim.
actually that's called testosterone and yes, you are helpless against it!
Oh, I'm aware - and it's probably only a matter of time before that gets reclassified as a malignant disorder.
The NAS misses an important and obvious point: You dont eat while you're asleep! LOL