Stress and Anxiety, Foods to Avoid Stress

Stress and anxiety affect the balance of our body, especially in regard to circulatory and immune systems, and we become prone to disease and stroke. Fortunately, proper diet and healthy other measures reduce its impact.

For some time health experts recognize that humans are more prone to illnesses of all types when subjected to extreme stress situations. So heavy burden of work, family problems, traffic congestion, and examination periods and to the birth of a baby at home can have undesirable consequences for health.

Stages in the response to stress:
* Alarm. It is the defense against an immediate threat. It happens even without conscious awareness and prepares us to overcome any risk.
* Adaptation or resistance. If the alarm stage is repeated or continues, the body tries to adapt to the effort and still works, but not as stable as before. Begin to manifest headache, insomnia, nightmares, poor concentration or memory, irritability, digestive problems, significant variations in weight and tension in the jaw.
* Depletion. When resistance is continuing the body can not extend the effort, the energies are depleted and fragile internal balance is broken. The ability to resist infection decreases while increases the likelihood of infarction (tissue death from lack of blood supply, mainly in heart and brain), high blood pressure, ulcers and even cancer.

In addition, prolonged stress can worsen conditions that the individual suffered from before, as diseases of the skin (itching, swelling and rashes or pimples), asthma (inflammation of the airways that causes shortness of breath), premenstrual discomfort (physical or emotional symptoms occur days before a woman starts her menstrual cycle), allergies and pain in head, back and joints.

Basic rules in the diet

Combating stress through diet is to eat healthy, balanced diet, although this is important to remember some key points:
* Respect the timing of meals and try to keep them stable every day. This will prevent sudden decreases in the level of nutrients.
* Start the day with a good breakfast. The lack of carbohydrates, vitamins and mineral at midmorning causes nervousness and irritability.
* The quality of sleep is disturbed due to abundant dining and drinking plenty of fluids before bedtime. It is recommended not to take food in the 2 to 3 hours before sleep.
* Avoid "crash diets" to lose weight because not only reduce the intake of carbohydrates but also vitamins and minerals.

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