One reason for the growth of the obesity epidemic is the stress on the younger generation. Scientists have found that stress hormones cause weight gain.
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Dutch researchers from the Children's hospital Erasmus MC-Sophia in Rotterdam, check out the full children and found they increased stress hormone levels. It turned out that boys and girls are overweight
cortisol in blood is 50% higher than in age-matched normal weight. According to researchers, the main reason for this is that the pressure (and in some cases, persecution) which was full of children and adolescents.
But here and there is a vicious circle - the higher cortisol in the body, the faster is deposited under the skin of excess fat, and the thicker it becomes a child. And what it is thicker, the more pressure from peers is exposed, which in turn contributes to the new jumps cortisol. Over time, teenagers become young men, and then, and not so young, who all his life have to struggle with being overweight or obese.
"We were surprised when we found already at the 8-year-old obese children increased levels of cortisol - says study author Eric van den Akkler. - Analyzing the skin under the hair of children, we were able to identify with what intensity to keep this level for a long time. We know that this figure is a biomarker of psychological stress, that is full of children being bullied in children's groups, and it only makes the situation worse. "
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