Can the news affect your waistline?

Today's headlines often carry an overwhelming amount of bad news. Whether your information is coming from TV news, your local paper, the internet or conversations with friends, odds are good that most isn't good news.

All that bad news can bring stress that can certainly affect your waistline and other factors in your life. Simply hearing about bad things can raise the levels of anxiety and stress you're experiencing.

When our stress levels increase, it's a natural reaction that we look to things that will comfort us, even if we don't consciously realize we're doing that. And one of the easies...