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What’s the Link Between Some Comfort Foods, Cortisol, and Stress?

Hint: A cellular burning flame wreaking havoc on our health

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How appealing it is, after an endless working day, to finally sit on the couch and wind down with:

• Wine, cheese, and beef jerky,
• Tex-Mex and a couple of beers,
• Honey salted peanuts — or peanut butter- with chips or crackers and a glass of wine/beer,
• Grilled ribs dipped in barbecue sauce plus 2 or 3 beers while watching the match and shouting in front of the screen,
• A half-package of Oreos while scrolling the Instagram feed and thinking about what you are going to prepare for dinner,
• A whole ice cream tub when you feel lonely — honoring Bridget Jones-,
• A grease-leaking “Combo Meal”- resembling the stressed Shrek’s Fairy Godmother ruining her diet at the “Friar’s Fat Boy”…
• …

The above are just a few examples of the brilliantly coined as “comfort foods.”

Almost magically, they truly comfort our distress symptoms in a matter of minutes.

At that point, our always eager-to-learn “Pavlov’s…