Stress Might Be Even More Unhealthy for the Obese

Researchers found that overweight people repeatedly placed in a stressful situation exhibited increasing amounts of interleukin-6, a protein that promotes inflammation in the body, in their blood. Normal weight people did not exhibit this escalation in interleukin-6 levels when exposed to repeated stress. The inflammation caused by interleukin-6 has been associated with a number of conditions for which obesity itself creates an increased risk, including hardening of the arteries, type 2 diabetes, cancer and fatty liver disease, the researchers said. http://consumer.healthday.com/vitamins-and-nutrition-information-27/obesity-health-news-505/stress-might-be-even-more-unhealthy-for-the-obese-suggests-692124.html#.VCmTIt6lHws.facebook