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Understanding stress

Labels: , Posted by Vina Revi on Thursday, July 12, 2007 at 2:24 PM


What is stress? Many people tend to view stress only from its negative side.

In reality stress is part of our daily life. What happens everyday canpose a challenge that necessitates the role of mind, body and emotion. We can adapt to stress and learn how to use it for our benefit. Stress can be viewed as a force that impose someone to change, grow, struggle, adapt or gain benefit.
However, too much stress will degrade our life quality.

We human tend to get physical and psychological stress. Cold or otherwise hot weather can produce physical stress to our body in such a way that there exists responses in terms of changes in circulation, respiration, and heart beat. Exposure to virus, fog or smoke can also cause a physical stress. Anxiety for special occasion, job deadline or loss of a friend are examples of psychological stress.








































EnvironmentPsychologicalNutrition
Water pollutionFeel of guiltySugar
Air pollutionFrustrationAlcohol
VirusMoral conflictCaffeine
Cigarette smokeMental fatigueCholesterol
NoiseLow self esteemSalt
DrugsWork overloadCola
Food contaminationLack of loveCoffe
source: Stress and Nutrition, Judith Swarth, MS.RD


Not all stress are detrimental. Stimuli, challenges and changes can beadvantageous to our life.

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