25 Surprising Ways Stress Affects Your Health
The good news is that there is much you can do to reduce the impact of stress in your life.
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Blood sugar
Stress is known to raise blood sugar, and if you already have type 2 diabetes you may find that your blood sugar is higher when you are under stress.
Changing what you eat, exercising more, or adjusting medication can help to keep it under control.
One study of obese black women without diabetes found that those who produced more stress-related epinephrine when asked to recall stressful life events had higher fasting glucose and bigger blood sugar spikes than those with lower epinephrine, suggesting it might raise your risk for getting diabetes too.
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