Stress Is Neither Sexy nor Appealing

Researchers photographed 52 ‘good-looking’ Latvian women with an average age of 20, then vaccinated each for hepatitis B and measured how many antibodies they produced as a result. However, they also found that cortisol levels were also higher.

A new study confirms the fact that stressed out women are not attractive to men.
The study, done in Finland,  found that women with higher cortisol levels were considered less attractive than those with lower levels. Bottom line: stress plays a more important role is attractiveness than the researchers ever thought. In fact, the results came as a surprise… the study was meant to correlate immunity with attractiveness but then things went awry.

The research team then asked 18 heterosexual male undergraduates to rate the women on their attractiveness and found that higher cortisol levels in the women correlated with how attractive the men found them.

The study also found a link between how much fat each women carried and how attractive they were considered. Too high or low amounts of body fat reduced the women’s attractiveness. In other words, those who were too thin were regarded as just as unattractive as those were seen as too fat.

Dr Markus Rantala speculated that instead low levels of cortisol could signal health in the female face.

“This would be consistent with many studies in humans that have found stress has strong negative effect on health, including immune function, heart disease and susceptibility to cancer, etc…” he said.

Rantala added that an alternative explanation for the findings is that facial attractiveness indicates reproductive potential which is mediated partly by stress hormones. In fact, past research has shown that stress interferes with fertility.

NOTE: A 2010 study showed that when men in the company of a beautiful woman had higher levels of cortisol, especially when left alone for five minutes. And if the men thought the women were out of their league, so to speak, cortisol levels soared. Ahhh… the tension caused by being too close to beauty.

And yes, this is yet another reason to control stress by balancing cortisol output with things like meditation, yoga, exercise, deep breathing and Sanyx Stress Mitigating Compound.

Cortisol and Stress Affect Eating Habits

It’s common knowledge that excess cortisol causes the body to store excess fat around the middle.  Few dispute this fact. When the body is consistently stressed, the effects of elevated cortisol create a demand for more fats to be deposited to the abdominal area, where cortisol receptors are higher.

But the increased girth is caused by other factors, too… related to how and what we eat when were under pressure.

Stress can drive us to eat comfort foods, generally fast foods loaded with salt, fat and sugar. Plus, these foods destroy our self-control. In short, we eat ‘bad’ food in excess.

When we’re stressed we grab the easiest, most convenient, and tastiest food – burgers, pizza, chicken nuggets, chips, etc. You know – a 7-11 diet.

Plus, high consumption of alcohol is also another by-product of stress. Alcohol is caloric… alcohol in excess is excessively caloric. One is never enough and two are just nice.

Three pints of beer = 500 calories. Do this twice a week and you’ve added 4,000 calories in a month. A year later, you’re at least 10 pounds heavier (13.7 pounds to be exact).

Eating and drinking comfort foods can help feel calm, but their long-term effects are horrific to your shape and your health.

Control stress, reduce cortisol… and stay slim around the middle. In fact, controlling cortisol through diet, meditation, biometric (mHealth) testing and supplementation, (see http://www.MySanyx.com), could be the best weight loss plan ever… and the simplest.