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What emotion causes weight gain?

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Your body responds to stress by releasing the hormone cortisol into your blood. Among other things, cortisol gives you a short term burst of increased energy, memory, and pain tolerance. However, when cortisol levels are elevated for a long period of time it can cause decreased muscle and bone density as well as an increase in abdominal fat and other nasty side-effects.

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