Recent Study Confirms Dieting Causes Stress and Increased Cortisol Levels

Many weight management programs fail because people become stressed when dieting, which can lead to binge eating of high calorie, carbohydrate and fat-laden comfort foods. This ‘stress eating’ syndrome often results in unsightly weight gain and deposition of unhealthy abdominal fat, the opposite of the intended weight loss goal. In a recent study (Tomiyama, AJ, et al. 2010. Low calorie dieting increases cortisol. Psychosom. Med. 72:357-364) involving 121 female participants who either ate restricted diets, monitored the amount of food they ate (a common practice associated with dieting), or combined the two interventions, researchers discovered that diet-induced stress occurred when the number of calories eaten was monitored daily by subjects, independent of whether caloric restriction took place or not. In addition, serum cortisol levels rose in subjects whose daily caloric intake was restricted. Cortisol is an adrenocorticoid hormone that is associated with the “stress response” and which contributes to stress-eating. These results indicate that both mental and physical aspects of dieting have a negative impact on health and well-being. Stress reduction and cortisol reduction, therefore, are essential for the success of any sensible weight management program. SensorilTrim® is a safe, all natural, multi-patented nutraceutical ingredient that provides superior weight management and abdominal fat-reducing properties due to its clinically proven ability to lower levels of stress and serum cortisol. SensorilTrim® helps take the stress out of dieting, making it the perfect complement to any existing healthy weight management product.


* Dr. Abedon received his M.S. and PhD in plant genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Dr. Abedon may be contacted through Nutragenesis at 802-257-5345, or bruce@nutragenesis.com.