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With few support networks, fast-paced careers, high targets and tight deadlines, women in the UAE Slim Forte feel the pinch - around their middle as well as to their levels of stress, finds Saadiya Ahmad
She has a personal trainer, a method consultant, a dietician and a chef. She has close to 49 million fans around the world - and she or he is incredibly influential. Yet when 168cm-tall TV talk show celebrity Oprah Winfrey ballooned to 91 kilos in 2008, she knew it had not been only the result of a malfunctioning thyroid or lack of exercise.
It had been about stress - "my life was out of whack, with too much work and not enough play, not enough time for you to calm down," she was quoted as saying.
She admits having abused food, using it as a drug "to comfort, to soothe, to ease stress'' after she was identified as having an over-active thyroid. "When I stop and ask myself, 'What shall we be held really hungry for?' the reply is always 'I'm hungry for balance, I'm hungry to behave other than work.' Should you look at your overscheduled routine and realise, like Used to do, that you are just going and going and that your projects and obligations have become a substitute for life, then you've nobody else to blame. Solve these questions . go ahead and take reins back,'' she said in her own magazine Oprah.
And her problems weren't that she was a celebrity juggling an enormous workload. It had been, according to experts, all down to her gender. "We know stress can result in obesity,'' says Nancy Petry, from the Department of Psychiatry in the University of Connecticut. Her finding mirrors the research conducted at Yale, which showed that non-overweight ladies who are vulnerable to the results of stress are more likely to have excess belly fat.
"We have the ability to some stress within our lives,'' says Dr Salvin George, Specialist Internal Medicine at MedCare Hospital, Dubai. "But it is the more dangerous chronic stress which one must keep a look out for. Chronic stress may be the result of prolonged issues for example workplace stress, marital issues and financial burdens, to name a few.''
Women are two times as vulnerable to stress as men. Dr Rita Valentino, a neuroscientist in the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, found women are more responsive to even lower levels of a chemical produced at times of anxiety called corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) and fewer in a position to cope when levels are high. That could explain why women are viewed to Zi Xiu Tang have higher rates of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder along with other anxiety problems than men.
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