Diet and stress are incompatible

Any violations of psychological balance, stress, depression and high anxiety — can negate all the benefits from eating healthy, warn researchers from the Ohio State University.

Scientists are attracted to participate in the study 58 Women, 38 of whom had previously endured breast cancer. The average age of participants amounted 53 year. In the course of the study, all they received for breakfast about the same. The researchers deliberately chose for this nutritious fatty foods, to simulate the fast food.

While some randomly chosen participants products seasoned with harmful saturated fats, derived from Palm oil, and other participants is beneficial unsaturated fats, obtained from sunflower oil, with a high concentration of oleic acid, possessing anti-inflammatory properties.
Then, not knowing, who from participants that ate, researchers conducted interviews, to determine the level of stress experienced by women. Besides, women's blood tested on biomarkers of inflammation.

As expected, from relatively correct ate participants, whose psyche was calm, the level of inflammation in the body was the lowest. However, for women in the stress was quite unimportant, what they ate, — healthy or harmful. In any case, indicators biomarkers of inflammation in their blood zaškalivali.

"The results show, that stress really interacts with the type of food, We eat, is explained in an interview with The Daily Mail, the study's lead author Janice Kikol′t-Glazer (Janice Kiecolt-Glaser). -No matter, that women ate, If they were in stress, the level of inflammation was at its peak ".