My article "Can Anxiety Make You Fat?", which was posted on Beliefnet.com and Zestnow.com, answered the question with a resounding "Yes." The major culprit here is cortisol, a hormone that is produced when the body is under stress. One of the things that cortisol does is "preferentially direct body fat to the abdominal region" (i.e., create belly fat), as Dallas and Melissa Hartwig state in their 2012 book It Starts with Food. But something even scarier is happening here:

Check out my article on anxiety, the unwelcome hormones it produces in the body, and how these (especially a hormone called cortisol) lead to fat formation. Find the article on Simply Woman, The Three Tomatoes, Alina Bradford, and Pittsburgh Better Times. #anxiety #mindfulness #addiction #hormones #cortisol #dopamine #stress #stressresponse #metabolicsyndrome #abdominalfat #narcotics #foodcravings