oldmanthunder
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I 100% agree with you that psychological stress (be it social, financial, etc.) is responsible for the majority of obesity. Mechanistically, chronic stress leads to adopting intuitive anti-stress behaviors, which long-term devolve into psychological dependency. This can be any activity which yields a strong reward like drug use, sex, food or play (video-games, internet). I believe many people are stressed/unhealthy without being fat because they simply use other forms of 'self medication' to alleviate the stress.Chronic stress from constantly being compared to me. I used to be an arrogant POS and friends and family just made it worse portraying me as some golden child, and I think it really affected him. I'm trying to pay for it now though.
I think chronic stress related to things like social defeat, financial insecurity, and learned helplessness play a huge role in obesity.
In general, if your metabolism is slow, you will have little appetite and thus will eat little and not gain weight. Only when your appetite is artificially increased by stress will you gain weight by over-eating. note: 'over' eating is simply eating above your expenditure, wether it be high or low due to varying metabolic efficiency.