By Molly Wider

For those of you who have not yet seen this, a recent German BMC Public Health study shows obesity and debt are strongly linked together. The study suggests that people who are heavily in debt are twice as likely to be more overweight than the general population and are 2.5 times as likely to be obese. The link between the two combines the psychological and social stress of being heavily in debt. People in these overly indebted situations tend to turn to comfort food and often become less physically active. Heavily indebted people are also often more likely to smoke on a daily basis.

According to a report from the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada, personal debt is on the rise, reaching a Canadian record high of $1.3 trillion dollars. More than 40% of Canadians have watched their personal debt grow over the past three years and 21% of them say they can no longer manage it.

A new study from the Canadian Community Health Survey finds 25% of Canadians as being obese compared to just 17% in 2007. This high obesity rate was once considered a problem in only the high-income countries but now, overweight and obesity are increasing in the low and middle income urban settings as well.

Another intriguing study founded examples of how stress can directly affect a person’s health. Initiated by the recession, there has been a relation found between cardiac events and the stock market. The American College of Cardiology reports that bad financial news can be a trigger for a cardiac event. Given an economic mainstream such as the Nasdaq, the health affects of this type of bad news may emerge over the course of a few weeks rather than on a single day, thus possibly resulting in cardiac events.

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