Few tips and diet to help reduce your stress.

Now-a-days, people are busy with their own lives and no one seems to be concerned about their health. Everyone is busy with their professional lives and are being dragged to poor health habits because of continuous work. No one is having time for their loved ones. Everyone is being detached from their personal lives. This is the reason which is leading them towards stressful life. Stress in one's life will lead to many mental illnesses such as anxiety, depression, dementia, schizophrenia, etc. One should try to reduce stress before it leads them to some serious mental illnesses. So, few tips and diet that are helpful to reduce stress are given below:

 

 

 

TIPS: Some tips which will help reduce your stress levels are mentioned below, try them out to reduce your stress.

Break: Take a break for few minutes in the working hours. Don't continuously stress out yourself. A small break will help in relaxing your mind and body. It gives you time to think peacefully.

Laugh: Laugh, it helps in relieving the stress by relaxing your muscles. Watch comedy shows and films, they help in relieving your tensions. Studies show that laughing therapy helps in reducing stress to a large extent. Few people even join laughing clubs and start laughing loudly in the parks and clubs early in the morning to reduce stress.

Chewing gum: Chewing gum helps in relaxing and reduces stress. Most of the sportsmen chew gum to reduce tension.

Family and friends: Spend most of the time with your family and friends, this helps in lowering anxiety and stress levels. Try to share your views and thoughts because they are the people who understand you more than anyone else in the whole world.

 

Music: Listening to music also helps in reducing stress levels. Music helps to soothe the mind. It helps in providing positive vibrations to the mind and body.

 

Yoga: Yoga is considered to be the best solution for reducing stress. Take yoga classes, it is highly helpful in maintaining the blood pressure. It helps in keeping your mind calm and peaceful.

 

Say No: Always try to say no to the over workloads given to you at your work place because the more you do the more work will be given to you. Instead of giving work to others, they start giving the whole work to you. If you start saying no, then the work will definitely be distributed among everyone and your work stress will also reduce.

 

Caffeine: Reduce caffeine intake because high doses of caffeine increases anxiety. This will lead to stress and depression in the later stages.

 

Exercise: Exercise daily because it lowers body's stress hormones and improves sleep quality. If sleep is better then there is no question of stress at all.

 

DIET: A good diet is to be maintained to reduce the stress levels. Diet plays an important role in reducing the stress. Try to add one of the below mentioned edibles daily in your diet.

Banana: Banana is a natural beta blocker. It is rich in potassium. When we are in stress, metabolic rate raises and lowers the potassium level, bananas helps in restoring the potassium and thus help in reducing the stress levels.

 

Cashew nuts: They are a good source of zinc. Low level of zinc leads to anxiety, depression and increase the stress levels. So cashew nuts help in lowering the stress levels and also help in controlling anxiety and depression.

Dark chocolate: It contains antioxidants which lowers blood pressure and gives a feeling of calmness. It is very useful and helps in reducing stress and tensions in the mind.

Salmon fish: It contains omega 3 fatty acids which reduces anxiety and is considered very essential for body and brain.

Spinach: It contains magnesium which regulates the blood pressure. Spinach also helps in reducing the occurrence of depression.

Oatmeal: It helps the brain in generating destressing neurotransmitter serotonin which reduces stress to a large extent.

 

Try to follow the tips and diet in your daily life to reduce your stress problems. Health is wealth, without good health there is nothing useful for us in this whole world. So, stay healthy and lead a better life.  

 

 

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Man on phone.

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Doctor: Is this her first child?

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Know, why water is so important for our life?

Have you ever wondered why water is so important for our life? Why we need water at all? Does water reduce the risk of any illnesses? Yes, water is very essential part of our life. Water has many properties and we can use water in many ways. Water is elixir of life. Water is a gift from God to all the living beings on earth. It helps in curing most of the diseases. Water plays an important role for our survival on earth. Water exists in many forms and our body consists of 70% of water, not only our body 70% of earth is covered in water.

Percentage of water in our body:

Our brain consists of 75% water. It makes up 83% of blood. It composes 22% of our bones and joints. Heart consists of 79%, lungs 80%, liver 72%, kidney 83%, and muscles 75%.


Water helps to:

Quench thirst, cushions joints and bones. It helps in carrying the nutrients and oxygen to the cells of our body. It helps in moistening oxygen for breathing. It helps in converting food to energy. It protects and cushions our vital organs. It helps our body to absorb nutrients. It helps in removing wastes and toxins from our body. It also helps in reducing bad breath.


Uses of water:

In our daily life we use water in many ways. We use it to wash clothes.  We take shower with water. It is used to quench thirst. It is used for brushing our teeth etc.

Water cures:

Ulcers- Ulcers which occur in the internal organs such as stomach, duodenum, etc., can be cured with sufficient intake of water from time to time because ulcers mainly occur when there is no intake of food or water for a long time period thus forms a wound in the internal organs. If water is consumed timely, would reduce the risk of occurrence of ulcers.

 Heartburns - Heartburns occurs due to water shortage in our body, if antacids or any other medications are given, may result in inflammation of the stomach and duodenum and may lead to ulceration or even cancer. Instead time to time intake of water will reduce the occurrence of heart burns.

Dehydration -Loss of water in the body leads to dehydration, if not rehydrated quickly, may lead to low blood pressure and the dehydrated person may even faint.

Kidney stones - It is suggested that when a person suffers from kidney stones, he should be given plenty of water to drink daily, this will help in removing the stones from the kidney in the form of urine. If not acted on time this may lead to kidney failure. So, to reduce kidney failure risk drink plenty of water.

Not only the above mentioned, but also it helps in curing many other diseases. So, drink plenty of water to stay healthy.

Wastage of water:

Though we, human beings, know that water is very important for our life, but still we waste lots of water. When only one bucket of water is required for washing clothes, we use two to three buckets. While brushing our teeth we open the tap and leave it open until we finish brushing. We unnecessarily waste lots of water in the toilets. If we continue to waste water like this, then our future generations may suffer a lot due to water scarcity.

Contamination of water:

Though 70% of earth is covered in water only 2.5% is fresh. Because of global warming, this percentage may even reduce in the coming years. Even after knowing all this, most of the rivers and lakes are being contaminated by washing clothes in them, by throwing garbage in them, bathing of cattle and sending industrial wastes into them. We know that we cannot survive without water, but still we contaminate it by doing all this.

Water conservation:

If timely precautions are not taken to save water then this may lead to drought everywhere around the world. Uneven climatic changes which are harmful for living beings, may occur. It may also lead to global warming. So, to prevent all these we should strive to conserve water. Water conservation can be done in many ways. Some of the methods through which we can conserve water are by using low flush toilets, low flow showers, low flow taps in the sinks or wash basins, rain water harvesting, etc. Save water, because water plays a vital role for our survival.

To know the true value of water one should ask the people who live in regions where there is scarcity of water. Those people walk miles together to get just one pot of water, but as water is easily available to us, we least care about it.

Health tip:

Drink 2 to 4 glasses of water on an empty stomach as soon as you wake up in the morning, before brushing your teeth. After sometime brush and clean your mouth and don't drink or eat anything for 45 minutes. This procedure will help in removal of toxins and wastes much faster than usual from our body. Thus, we can reduce the risk of diseases like high blood pressure, gastric problems, constipation, kidney problems, and tuberculosis with in few days.