Resisting stress is possible if you are successful in leading a healthy lifestyle. In order to lead a heatlhy lifestyle one should try to maintain a healthy diet as well as good physical fitness, rest, and relaxation. This website focuses on how a person should maintain a heatlhy diet. It is very important that people take the time to eat meals but it is also necessary to eat a variety of foods. Balanced meals that contain grains, fruits, and vegetables as well as foods low in fat,sugar, and salt are important. While eating your balanced meals you should take the time to relax and socialize. With this you are maintaining your healthy diet as well as relieving stress socially. An unhealthy diet, as we all know, may lead to weight gain, which in turn will put more stress on us to lose the extra weight.
Many foods and substances to avoid are:
caffeine
alcohol
cigarettes
Examine your diet:
Studies have shown that the body under sress loses its store of Vitamin
B, as well as, vitamins A & C. Help restore these essential vitamins
through supplements and through these food sources: A- green vegetables,
milk, and liver
B- yeast, wheat germ, and eggs
C- citrus fruits, raw vegetables
Tips on Diet and Nutrition:
Fruits and vegetables should make up 50%-75% of our diet ----
Eat more!!!
Avoid
processed foods and junk foods
Rid
your diet of dairy products for three weeks and then gradually add them
back in. This will help you determine
whether stress responses are related to this part of your diet.