Stress-related Weight Gain Spikes With Financial Crisis
- Filed under: Health News
- Date: Dec 24,2008
Naturopathic No Crave Diet author warns many turn to food for comfort during economy crisis
The global financial crisis of the past year has hurt Americans and Canadians in more than just their wallets. Trends show that as a result of increased stress, many are eating more than usual and losing their battle against the bulge even as they try harder to diet.
“I’ve been seeing nearly three new patients a day for months, and 90 percent of them have stress-related eating issues,” said Dr. Penny Kendall-Reed, a world-famous naturopathic physician and author who treats patients on how to utilize the brain and holistic measures for controlling food cravings without the unpleasant side-effects normally associated with dieting.
According to Dr. Kendall-Reed, as many people become more stressed about work stability and the economic downturn, they compulsively turn to food.
“Stress stimulates the hunger center in the brain, destabilizes our blood sugar, makes us resistant to our anti-hunger messengers, and reduces our levels of ‘happy hormone’ serotonin, all of which trigger cravings that inevitably lead to weight gain,” said Dr. Kendall-Reed.
Dr. Kendall-Reed should know; her revolutionary, research-based No-Crave Diet concept, co-authored with her husband Dr. Stephen Reed, helps people take back control of their weight by teaching them how to counter the biological process that makes us crave the wrong foods, effectively silencing the craving urge fueled by stress.
“A standard complaint I get from patients at a time like this is that their diets are not working,” said Dr. Kendall-Reed. “That’s simply because stress promotes storage of calories, particularly around the midsection, which is the most dangerous place to gain weight and the hardest to remove.”
Monitoring about 90 percent of her patients on the No-Crave Diet for six to eight weeks prior to when the financial crisis worsened in mid-October, Dr. Kendall-Reed noticed that they have continued to lose weight and report no recurrence of cravings.
Dr. Kendall-Reed frequently lectures in the U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean and come January 9, 2009 will be in Santa Monica, Calif. teaching how to beat the food cravings that lead to weight gain.
Dr. Penny Kendall-Reed
Dr. Penny is a specialist in weight loss and preventative health, and co-author, with husband Dr. Stephen Reed, of The No Crave Diet book and the national best seller, The Naturopathic Diet (and the more comprehensive book The New Naturopathic Diet). She travels extensively throughout Canada and the United States lecturing on weight loss and related diseases.
The Kendall-Reeds also co-authored: Healing Arthritis, The Complete Doctor’s Stress Solution, and The Complete Doctor’s Healthy Back Bible (voted a Chapters/Indigo recommended book in their “Trusted Advisor” series). Visit www.nocrave.com and www.pkrhealth.ca, for more information.
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