10 tips that helps reduce stress

Stress= external or internal tension and emotional distress. Stress can cause health problem like heart attacks, cancer, decreased immunity and inflammation. Stress puts a strain on the mind, changing chemicals in the brain. Stress can cause depression. Stress is in everyone's life is like part of life like air, so instead of avoiding it is wise to understand it and find ways to stress less.
When we are stressed our body goes into a fight or flight mode/response by activating adrenaline and other hormones that raise blood pressure, cause tension in muscles, speed up your regular heart beat, metabolism speeds up to provide extra energy and keeps us alert. Digestion is stopped as blood is pushed from the intestines to the muscles.


Stress events such as major life changes- Toxic parent, Toxic friends, Toxic In-laws, spouse’s death, divorce, marriage separation, Jail term, death of a close relative, Injury or ill loved one, getting marriage, fired from job, marriage reconciliation, retirement, resigning from your job for health reasons, financial problems, work, being too busy-doing too much, relationship difficulties, children and family.

Internal causes of stress: lack of assertiveness, unrealistic expectations, pessimism, negative self-talk, perfectionism, inability to accept uncertainty.


Physical symptoms of stress includes-frequent headaches, unusual rapid breathing, dizziness, weakness, diarrhea, constipation,heartburn, Palpitations, shortness of breath, chest pain, symptoms of heart disease, tingling sensations in the hands and feet, chronic and recurring muscle and joint aches. Some people binge eat when depressed while others don't feel like eating when your stressed, try to eat smaller meals.


10 stress relieving tip:

1. Some studies show that stressed people who took 1,000mg of vitamin C daily had lower blood pressure and lower levels of stress hormones, vitamin C also contain antioxidant properties.
2. Carbohydrate-rich meals can increase levels of serotonin, a brain chemical that is known to induce a feeling of calm. Some studies show that diet higher in carbohydrates and lower in animal protein had less-stress induced depression, eat carbohydrates like potatoes, brown rice etc.
3. Eat foods high in Zinc, antioxidant to help combat the effect of stress and to improve the immune system. Studies have shown that chronically stressed people have depressed levels of nutrients in their body, which can be corrected with a multivitamin and mineral supplement. 
4. Eat regularly and eat healthy breakfast. Oatmeal and hemp/soy milk breakfast helps to relieve stress. Eat slowly because eating on a rush can upset the digestive system, difficulty digesting food, lower metabolism, increase stress levels. Avoid "Yo-Yo diet/fad diet".
5. Eating comfort foods that are high in antioxidants like chocolate increases the production of serotonin, a chemical in the brain that helps to calm the body. Find Pure Dark chocolate truffles.
6. Regular exercise and relaxing music helps to increase the production of Endorphins, brain chemicals that lift mood.
7. Get regular sleep.
8. Ventilate your environment and Learn to relax by meditating-detox mind, yoga, deep breathing exercise etc.
9. Get organized, write your priority on a to do list and do each one but step by step.
10. Having a supportive friend or a companion helps.

Other tips 5 Ways to de-stress

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Food matters- You are what you eat

Food matters, you are what you eat. It is wise that vegetarians combine cooked and raw diet, especially if you experience low energy level because the nutrient in raw food is still intact not tampered with heat while cooked food has been heated, making food enzymes and some nutrient unavailable or not sufficient. Heat changes the makeup of food. It is said that approximately 85% of nutrients and beneficial enzymes in food are lost when cooked.

The digestive system has to work harder and longer to process cooked foods in order for the body is to get sufficient amount of nutrient for energy and health. The best way to eat raw will be to use the Gerson therapy - juicing because this way you can get your nutrient in a juice, making it easy to consume many fruits and vegetables at the same time.  Incorporate Raw bananas, pineapple, apple,  replace pasteurized orange juice for raw oranges, Beet-taste better raw, carrot, oat, kale, carrot, Whole grains, Nuts, Asparagus, Buckwheat, Pomegranates, Pumpkin Seeds, Purple Cabbage, Red Peppers, Spinach, Sunflower Seeds, Tomatoes, seaweed. Studies have shown that raw foods have healing powers that can alleviate many illnesses such as low energy, allergies, digestive disorders, weak immune system, high cholesterol, Candida, obesity and weight management problems. A person can prevent the body’s healthy cells from turning into malignant cancerous cells by eating mostly raw whole foods.  When cooking food, be selective of what you cook and how you prepare it (what kind of cookware you use and how much heat you apply affects nutrient and flavor). For example, you can eat beets raw and bake potatoes because raw potatoes will be hard on the mouth; you can eat oat meal raw or boil for 1mins to soften- use cooking methods like baking that helps to seal in food nutrient/compounds. Other tips:  You can add sprouts in your salad; it is good source of nutrient, protein and it’s easy to digest. Nutrients and Enzymes in raw food is still intact. Eating raw food is quick, simple way to eat when on the go. You will save money on food and cooking equipment. Helps if you have a toxic cookware you are concerned about cooking with, you can get your nutrient by eating mostly raw foods. It is harder for our body to digest meat than it is to digest cooked or raw plant-based food. Cruelty-free, plant-based diet, nontoxic way of eating.

 Food matters, you are what you eat. Food matter, what happens to food before it gets to us.

Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food – Hippocrates. That is the message from the founding father of modern medicine echoed in the controversial new documentary film Food Matters from Producer-Directors James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch. With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what’s wrong with our malnourished bodies, it’s no wonder that modern society is getting sicker.Food Matters sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide sickness industry and gives people some scientifically verifiable solutions for overcoming illness naturally.

The right kind of foods, supplements and detoxification can be used to treat chronic illnesses as fatal as terminally diagnosed cancer.

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