Yo-Yo Dieting: gaining weight, losing weight

The so-called yo-yo diet increases the level of stress in the body that makes a person more likely to rush to the cake, donuts and other foods. These products help to suppress anxiety.

In English, there is a special term comfort eating, literally translated as "comfort food". This term experts represent a situation in which people are using the fatty food is removed stress levels . For example, an abandoned woman seizes the mountain cakes, and a man who lost his job to lean on beer and crackers.

Horse racing weight, caused by a certain diet, or so-called diet yo-yo Directly increases the risk of "comfort food." Permanent loss and weight gain, which occur when people then go on a diet, then abandon it, leads to increased stress hormone levels in the body, as established researchers. And this is the stress people are often not completely extinguish the different healthy foods.

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania watched a group of laboratory mice. During the first three weeks, they were kept on a low calorie diet, resulting in mice lost 10-15% by weight. The level of stress   in their body increased, and the behavior of rodents was markedly depressed. Experts have found that an important role in the regulation   stress levels   and processes of power play a few genes.

Even when the mice were returned to their former weight remained the same genetic changes. The simulated stress these mice ate twice foods high in fat than the control group of rodents.

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