Researchers from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, managed to find a relationship between depression and the concentration of fat in the abdomen andwaist. Armed with data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adult Study (CARDIA), involving more than 5100 men and women aged between 18-30 years, Belinda Needham, assistant professor of sociology, and his colleagues, found that in 15 years, all participants experienced increase in body weight. However, the depressed participants experienced the most rapid increase in weight. Written in the American Journal of Public Health, increased stress hormone cortisol, which affects the levels of depression and abdominal obesity, is a causative factor of depression patients more easily increase the concentration of fat in the abdomen. In [...]