FRIDAY, July 10 (HealthDay News) — Stress can keep you up at night, make you snap at your spouse and children, and make your job seem overwhelming.If that’s not bad enough, stress can also make you gain weight — especially if you’re overweight to begin with, new research shows.”Today’s economy is stressing people out, and stress has been linked to a number of illnesses — such as heart disease, high blood pressure and increased risk for cancer,” study author Dr. Jason Block, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar at Harvard University and an internal medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s …
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