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Discuss “Stress levels feed unhealthy eating habits”

With a poor dining and exercising regimen, Carnegie Mellon students are sitting at the bottom of the fitness grading curve, according to

Men’s Fitness.

In addition, the campus was ranked seventh in the Princeton Review’s “Their Students Never Stop Studying” category, suggesting that the campus

community’s stress level have some connection to students’ eating habits.

In a study carried out by the Institute of Psychological Sciences at the University of Leeds in the UK from 2003 to 2005, researchers found that a high stress level is associated with fluctuation in food intake levels, as well as changes in food choices and eating patterns.

“Some people will want to eat more, and some people’s appetites will completely disappear,”...

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