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Avoiding emotional stress and overweight

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Avoiding emotional stress and overweight

Some tips to avoid falling into a pattern of stress and a significant increase in weight:

1. Avoid drinking coffee, and alcohol and if you take it, do it moderately. These substances over activating the body and even cause a feeling of relaxation, this is temporary.

2. Do sports at least three times a week. Moderate physical exertion stimulates the segregation of endorphins that positively affect our mood.

3. Maintain a balanced diet. This will not only help you to face everyday life situations with greater strength and endurance also look better physically will help you improve your mood.

4. Eat foods rich in vitamins A, B and C and minerals. Fruits and vegetables and nuts and steamed fish, we provide all the nutrients needed to prevent fatigue and everyday stress. (more…)

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Decalogue to avoid stress and control overweight

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

The work routine takes toll of many workers, who fall into small depressions or undergo periods of stress, which may induce them to exceed the food.

According to Dr. Ignacio Ferrando, director of Sanitas Medical Communication, “part of our survival instinct and autorecompensa lies in the food, which prompts us to seek satisfaction in it instinctively lost in everyday problems. Therefore, excessive hunger or “craving to snack on” uncontrolled are signs that must not be neglected, then tell us that something happens to that, avoid them, could have serious consequences.

The intake of unhealthy food or the breakdown of dietary habits can lead to lack of some nutrients and the consequent lowering of defenses, weakening our immune system and provoking physical stress at the same time, causes episodes of emotional stress, which attempted to mitigate self reward through the meal. (more…)

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