Stress may be the reason people with obesity are more likely to get other metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, according to a recent study. Scientists at Rutgers University, New Jersey, experimented on genetically engineered mice to investigate how overeating leads to insulin resistance, otherwise known as prediabetes.
“Stress and obesity, in essence, work through the same basic mechanism in causing diabetes, through the actions of stress hormones,” said the study’s senior author, Christoph Buettner from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, in a statement. Prediabetes affects more than a third of the U.S. population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and can develop into type 2 diabetes, which affects approximately one in 10 Americans. Individuals with diabetes struggle to process sugars from food with the hormone insulin. Thursday, November 14 is World Diabetes Day. To read the full story.