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Fight Bad Stress with Good Nutrition

 

Fight Bad Stress with Good Nutrition

 

Not all stresses are bad. In fact, a healthy amount of stress makes our lives dynamic, productive, and even interesting. But too much or prolonged stress affects our health and general well-being. 

The good news is you can cope with any kind of stress through the right nutrition and a healthy lifestyle.

Stress has different origins:

1) Physical Stress --- that is the result of any injury, over-done exercise, excessive sporting, or changing your familiar environment.

2) Physiological Stress --- that originates from fatigue, illness, and traumas.

3) Nutritive Stress --- that catches you when you are not taking a balanced diet and your body goes through endogenous stress due to lack of important nutrients. Fast foods, cold drinks, caffeine, and red meats also contribute to that kind of stress.

4) Psychological Stress --- that is the direct consequence of long-term episodes of mental worries, family life issues, problematic love relations, performance-related anxiety, social phobias, etc.

How Nutrition Can Help You Keeping Any Stress in its Limits?

  • Natural foods like fresh vegetables, colorful fruits, and time-tested herbs contain a lot of antioxidants to produce positive physio-chemical changes in your body, enabling your immune system to fight against stresses.
  • A tablespoon of honey mixed in a glass of milk stimulates the production of serotonin in the brain that is a natural antidepressant. Milk is rich in amino acids that help in inducing peaceful and deep sleep at night.
  • There is a Chinese proverb: “Whenever in stress, add more sugar to your tea.” In other words, carbohydrates are the best option against destructive stress. An ideal “anti-stress” breakfast must have sweet cereals on the table.
  • Leaves of Holy Basil have been proven to be effective in relieving stress. If you chew twelve Basil leaves in the morning, it can be good insurance against daily-life stress.
  • Dry fruits are actually nature’s health supplements that have all essential vitamins and minerals known to be beneficial for physical stress.

Get rid of Fast Foods as fast as possible!

All kinds of fast foods actually encourage the production of free radicals in the body, and free radicals once formed, as a chain reaction, make more free radicals. The excessive amount of free radicals damages the brain cells, causes the skin to wrinkle, and makes them vulnerable to infections. Needless to say, the situation exposes the body to a lot of stress to deal with.

The right nutrition is the key to a stress-free life. If until now, you have been careless about what is getting into your stomach, then now is the time to check your diet. Prevention was better than cure yestertimes and prevention is still better than cure despite all the wonderful progress of modern medicines.

 

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